The girl herself, too, began to have an opinion.

It was said that she had absolutely rejected Lord Grasslough, whose father indeed was in a state of bankruptcy, who had no income of his own, who was ugly, vicious, ill-tempered, and without any power of recommending himself to a girl.
She had had experience since Lord Nidderdale, with a half laugh, had told her that he might just as well take her for his wife, and was now tempted from time to time to contemplate her own happiness and her own condition.

People around were beginning to say that if Sir Felix Carbury managed his affairs well he might be the happy man.
There was a considerable doubt whether Marie was the daughter of that Jewish-looking woman.

Enquiries had been made, but not successfully, as to the date of the Melmotte marriage.

There was an idea abroad that Melmotte had got his first money with his wife, and had gotten it not very long ago.