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. In
regard to the property he spoke the truth, and he spoke what he believed
to be the truth when he said that the whole thing would no doubt now be
easily arranged. When Lord Fawn took his leave, Mr. Camperdown again
declared to himself that as regarded money the match was very well for his
lordship; but that, as regarded the woman, Lizzie was dear at the price.
"Perhaps he doesn't mind it," said Mr. Camperdown to himself, "but I
wouldn't marry such a woman myself, though she owned all Scotland."
There had been much in the interview to make Lord Fawn unhappy. In the
first place, that golden hope as to the perpetuity of the property was at
an end. He had never believed that it was so; but a man may hope without
believing. And he was quite sure that Lizzie was bound to give up the
diamonds, and would ultimately be made to give them up. Of any property in
them, as possibly accruing to himself, he had not thought much; but he
could not abstain from thinking of the woman's grasp upon them.
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