Lady Fawn knows that I am writing to you to ask you what you think
best."
On receipt of this Greystock was very much puzzled. What a little fool
Lucy had been, and yet what a dear little fool! Who cared for Lord Fawn
and his hard words? Of course Lord Fawn would say all manner of evil
things of him, and would crow valiantly in his own farmyard; but it would
have been so much wiser on Lucy's part to have put up with the crowing,
and to have disregarded altogether the words of a man so weak and
insignificant! But the evil was done, and he must make some arrangement
for poor Lucy's comfort. Had he known exactly how matters stood, that the
proposition as to Lucy's departure had come wholly from herself, and that
at the present time all the ladies at Fawn Court--of course in the absence
of Lord Fawn--were quite disposed to forgive Lucy if Lucy would only be
forgiven, and hide herself when Lord Fawn should come; had Frank known all
this, he might, perhaps, have counselled her to remain at Richmond. But he
believed that Lady Fawn had insisted on Lucy's departure; and of course,
in such a case, Lucy must depart. He showed the letter to his sister, and
asked for advice.
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