Dove say who was to be asked about them? No
doubt they can pay a barrister to say anything."
"Lizzie, you think too hardly of people."
"And do not people think too hardly of me? Does not all this amount to an
accusation against me that I am a thief? Am I not persecuted among them?
Did not this impudent attorney stop me in the public street and accuse me
of theft before my very servants? Have they not so far succeeded in
misrepresenting me that the very man who is engaged to be my husband
betrays me? And now you are turning against me? Can you wonder that I am
hard?"
"I am not turning against you."
"Yes; you are. You take their part and not mine in everything. I tell you
what, Frank, I would go out in that boat that you see yonder and drop the
bauble into the sea did I not know that they'd drag it up again with their
devilish ingenuity. If the stones would burn I would burn them. But the
worst of it all is that you are becoming my enemy." Then she burst into
violent and almost hysteric tears.
"It will be better that you should give them into the keeping of some one
whom you can both trust, till the law has decided to whom they belong.
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