"
"And if she lives for fifty years," asked Greystock, "is none to be cut?"
"Yes--by consent. Of course, the regular cutting for the year is done,
year by year. That's as regular as the rents, and the produce is sold by
the acre. But she is marking the old oaks. What the deuce can she want
money for?"
"Fawn will put all that right."
"He'll have to do it," said Eustace. "Since she has been down with old
Lady Fawn, she has written a note to Camperdown--after leaving all his
letters unanswered for the last twelve-month--to tell him that Lord Fawn
is to have nothing to do with her property, and that certain people,
called Mowbray & Mopus, are her lawyers. Camperdown is in an awful way
about it."
"Lord Fawn will put it all right," said Frank.
"Camperdown is afraid that he won't. They've met twice since the
engagement was made, and Camperdown says that, at the last meeting, Fawn
gave himself airs, or was, at any rate, unpleasant. There were words about
those diamonds."
"You don't mean to say that Lord Fawn wants to keep your brother's family
jewels?"
"Camperdown didn't say that exactly; but Fawn made no offer of giving them
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