Stop one moment, Mr. Camperdown. I feel
myself bound to go further than that, and express my own opinion that she
is right."
"I can hardly understand such an opinion as coming from you," said Mr.
Camperdown.
"You have changed your mind, at any rate," said John Eustace.
"Not so, Eustace. Mr. Camperdown, you'll be good enough to understand that
my opinion expressed here is that of a friend, and not that of a lawyer.
And you must understand, Eustace," continued Greystock, "that I am
speaking now of my cousin's right to the property. Though the value be
great, I have advised her to give up the custody of it for a while, till
the matter shall be clearly decided. That has still been my advice to her,
and I have in no respect changed my mind. But she feels that she is being
cruelly used, and with a woman's spirit will not, in such circumstances,
yield anything. Mr. Camperdown actually stopped her carriage in the
street."
"She would not answer a line that anybody wrote to her," said the lawyer.
"And I may say plainly--for all here know the circumstances--that Lady
Eustace feels the strongest possible indignation at the manner in which
she is being treated by Lord Fawn.
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