She was fat and fair,--unlike in colour to our traditional Jewesses; but she had the Jewish nose and the Jewish contraction of the eyes.

There was certainly very little in Madame Melmotte to recommend her, unless it was a readiness to spend money on any object that might be suggested to her by her new acquaintances.

It sometimes seemed that she had a commission from her husband to give away presents to any who would accept them.

The world had received the man as Augustus Melmotte, Esq.

The world so addressed him on the very numerous letters which reached him, and so inscribed him among the directors of three dozen companies to which he belonged.
But his wife was still Madame Melmotte.