And you may tell him that I don't defend myself, only I
shall always think that he ought not to have said that Mr. Greystock
wasn't a gentleman before me." When Lady Fawn left Lucy the matter was so
far settled that Lucy had neither been asked to come down to dinner, nor
had she been forbidden to seek another home.
CHAPTER XXX
MR. GREYSTOCK'S TROUBLES
Frank Greystock stayed the Sunday in London and went down to Bobsborough
on the Monday. His father and mother and sister all knew of his engagement
to Lucy, and they had heard also that Lady Eustace was to become Lady
Fawn. Of the necklace they had hitherto heard very little, and of the
quarrel between the two lovers they had heard nothing. There had been many
misgivings at the deanery, and some regrets, about these marriages. Mrs.
Greystock, Frank's mother, was, as we are so wont to say of many women,
the best woman in the world. She was unselfish, affectionate, charitable,
and thoroughly feminine. But she did think that her son Frank, with all
his advantages, good looks, cleverness, general popularity, and seat in
Parliament, might just as well marry an heiress as a little girl without
twopence in the world.
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