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-- `` not that you know any thing whatever about it , or have any business to think at all on the subject -- I shall speak to George Pynsent , who is now chief secretary of the Tape and Sealing Wax Office , and have Mr. Pendennis made something . And , Beck , in the morning you will carry down my compliments to Major Pendennis , and say that I shall pay him a visit at one o'clock . -- Yes , '' muttered the old lady , `` the major must be reconciled , and he must leave his fortune to Laura 's children . '' Accordingly , at one o'clock , the Dowager Lady Rockminster appeared at Major Pendennis 's , who was delighted , as may be imagined , to receive so noble a visitor . The major had been prepared , if not for the news which her ladyship was about to give him , at least with the intelligence that Pen 's marriage with Miss Amory was broken off . The young gentleman bethinking him of his uncle , for the first time that day , it must be owned , and meeting his new servant in the hall of the hotel , asked after the major 's health from Mr. Frosch ; and then went into the coffee-room of the hotel , where he wrote a half-dozen lines to acquaint his guardian with what had occurred . `` Dear uncle , '' he said , `` if there has been any question between us , it is over now .