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The Eustace Diamonds

CHAPTER XI
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Don't you think you had better see Mr.Camperdown ?" "I have seen him." "And what does he say ?" "What should he say?
Lady Eustace has, I believe, made some mistake about the condition of her property, and people who have heard it have been good-natured enough to say that the error has been wilful.
That is what I call slander, Clara." "And have you heard about her jewels ?" Mrs.Hittaway was alluding here to the report which had reached her as to Lizzie's debt to Harter and Benjamin when she married Sir Florian; but Lord Fawn of course thought of the diamond necklace.
"Yes;" said he, "I have heard all about them.

Who told you ?" "I have known it ever so long.

Sir Florian never got over it." Lord Fawn was again in the dark, but he did not choose to commit himself by asking further questions.

"And then her treatment of Lady Linlithgow, who was her only friend before she married, was something quite unnatural.

Ask the dean's people what they think of her.


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