[The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Eustace Diamonds CHAPTER XI 7/18
If she likes to have another lawyer, of course, that's all right.
Only make her understand who Mowbray and Mopus are.
It's quite out of the question, Lord Fawn, that your wife should have anything to do with Mowbray and Mopus." Every word that Mr.Camperdown said was gospel to Lord Fawn. And yet, as the reader will understand, Mr.Camperdown had by no means expressed his real opinion in this interview.
He had spoken of the widow in friendly terms,--declaring that she was simply mistaken in her ideas as to the duration of her interest in the Scotch property, and mistaken again about the diamonds;--whereas in truth he regarded her as a dishonest, lying, evil-minded harpy.
Had Lord Fawn consulted him simply as a client, and not have come to him an engaged lover, he would have expressed his opinion quite frankly; but it is not the business of a lawyer to tell his client evil things of the lady whom that client is engaged to marry.
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