"I have never dreamed of wearing them."
"I don't understand about such things," said Lucy, determined not to
impute any blame to one of the Fawn family.
"It is tyranny, sheer tyranny," continued the other, "and he will find
that I am not the woman to yield to it. No. For love I could give up
everything--but nothing from fear. He has told me in so many words that he
does not intend to go on with his engagement!"
"Has he indeed?"
"But I intend that he shall. If he thinks that I am going to be thrown
over because he takes ideas of that kind into his head, he's mistaken. He
shall know that I'm not to be made a plaything of like that. I'll tell you
what you can do for me, Lucy."
"What can I do for you?"
"There is no one in the world I trust more thoroughly than I do you," said
Lizzie, "and hardly any one that I love so well. Think how long we have
known each other! And you may be sure of this: I always have been, and
always will be, your friend with my cousin Frank."
"I don't want anything of that kind," said Lucy, "and never did."
"Nobody has so much influence with Frank as I. Just do you write to me to-
morrow, and the next day, and the day after, a mere line, you know, to
tell me how the land lies here.
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