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The Eustace Diamonds

CHAPTER VI
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So I am, and therefore I have come.

I don't like it, I can tell you." "As for that, Aunt Penelope, you've done it to please yourself," said Lizzie, in a tone of insolence with which Lady Linlithgow had been familiar in former days.
"No, I haven't, miss.

I haven't come for my own pleasure at all.
I have come for the credit of the family, if any good can be done towards saving it.

You've got your husband's diamonds locked up somewhere, and you must give them back." "My husband's diamonds were my diamonds," said Lizzie stoutly.
"They are family diamonds, Eustace diamonds, heirlooms,--old property belonging to the Eustaces, just like their estates.

Sir Florian didn't give 'em away, and couldn't, and wouldn't if he could.


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