CHAPTER XXXIII
IT WON'T BE TRUE
Mrs. Greystock, in making her proposition respecting Lady Linlithgow,
wrote to Lady Fawn, and by the same post Frank wrote to Lucy. But before
those letters reached Fawn Court there had come that other dreadful letter
from Mrs. Hittaway. The consternation caused at Fawn Court in respect to
Mr. Greystock's treachery almost robbed of its importance the suggestion
made as to Lord Fawn. Could it be possible that this man, who had so
openly and in so manly a manner engaged himself to Lucy Morris, should now
be proposing to himself a marriage with his rich cousin? Lady Fawn did not
believe that it was possible. Clara had not seen those horrid things with
her own eyes, and other people might be liars. But Amelia shook her head.
Amelia evidently believed that all manner of iniquities were possible to
man.
"You see, mamma, the sacrifice he was making was so very great!"
"But he made it!" pleaded Lady Fawn.
"No, mamma, he said he would make it. Men do these things. It is very
horrid, but I think they do them more now than they used to. It seems to
me that nobody cares now what he does, if he's not to be put into prison.
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