"
"Peace!" she exclaimed. "How am I to have peace? Remember the condition in
which I find myself! Remember the manner in which that man is treating me,
when all the world has been told of my engagement to him! When I think of
it my heart is so bitter that I am inclined to throw, not the diamonds,
but myself, from off the rocks. All that remains to me is the triumph of
getting the better of my enemies. Mr. Camperdown shall never have the
diamonds. Even if they could prove that they did not belong to me they
should find them--gone."
"I don't think they can prove it."
"I'll flaunt them in the eyes of all of them till they do; and then--they
shall be gone. And I'll have such revenge on Lord Fawn before I have done
with him that he shall know that it may be worse to have to fight a woman
than a man. Oh, Frank, I do not think that I am hard by nature, but these
things make a woman hard." As she spoke she took his hand in hers, and
looked up into his eyes through her tears. "I know that you do not care
for me and you know how much I care for you."
"Not care for you, Lizzie?"
"No; that little thing at Richmond is everything to you.
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