Camperdown by raising a doubt on the question of the necklace.
"He can't but know that she has no more right to it than I have," Mr.
Camperdown had said to his son with indignation. Mr. Camperdown was
becoming unhappy about the necklace, not quite knowing how to proceed in
the matter.
In the mean time Frank had obeyed his better instincts, and had asked Lucy
Morris to be his wife. He had gone to Fawn Court in compliance with a
promise to Lizzie Eustace that he would call upon her there. He had walked
with Lucy because he was at Fawn Court. And he had written to Lucy because
of the words he had spoken during the walk. In all this the matter had
arranged itself as such matters do, and there was nothing, in truth, to be
regretted. He really did love the girl with all his heart. It may,
perhaps, be said that he had never in truth loved any other woman. In the
best humours of his mind he would tell himself--had from old times told
himself often--that unless he married Lucy Morris he could never marry at
all. When his mother, knowing that poor Lucy was penniless, had, as
mothers will do, begged him to beware, he had spoken up for his love
honestly, declaring to her that in his eyes there was no woman living
equal to Lucy Morris.
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