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All tumbling down on Melmotte. Trollope ahead of his time in a number of ways. Marie Melmotte stands up to her father, sees through the "bride sweepstakes" game of which she is a part, insists (unsuccessfully) that she should be able to marry for love.  Paul Montague, who has jilted his American widow, is angry that Hetta doesn't immediately see the whole thing his way. Trollope's comment:  one wonders how he would feel if it were all reversed, if Hetta had a widower whom she'd promised to marry and had jilted just a few weeks earlier.

Melmotte wins his seat in parliament, but he has forged Dolly Longstaffe's signature on a property deed and is on the verge of financial ruin.  Marie won't sign back to him property he put in her name as a hedge against his own ruin.

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