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The Eustace Diamonds

CHAPTER III
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And Lord Fawn's title was his own, and Lady Fawn's rank her own.

She coveted no man's possessions,--and no woman's; but she was minded to hold by her own.

Of present advantages or disadvantages,--whether she had the one or suffered from the other,--she thought not at all.

It was her fault that she had nothing of feminine vanity.

But no man or woman was ever more anxious to be effective, to persuade, to obtain belief, sympathy, and co-operation;--not for any result personal to herself, but because, by obtaining these things, she could be effective in the object then before her, be it what it might.
One other thing may be told of her.


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