"I'll have this bar down, at any rate." And he did succeed in having removed the bar which had been specially put up to prevent his intrusion on his own guests in his own house. "I look upon that fellow's coming here as a very singular sign of the times," he went on to say. "They'll want before long to know where I have my clothes made, and who measures me for my boots!" Perhaps the most remarkable circumstance in the career of this remarkable man was the fact that he came almost to believe in himself.

Now, can we have this bar down?"
And he succeeded in removing the bar which had been put up to prevent his intrusion on his own guests in his own house.
"That fellow's coming here is a sign of the times," he went on. "Before long they'll want to know where I have my clothes and boots made!" Perhaps the most remarkable circumstance in Melmotte's remarkable career was the fact that he almost came to believe in himself.
