That's his name in all the peerages, and I suppose they ought to know."
"And what does Lord George de Bruce say about the diamonds?"
Now it had come to pass that Lady Eustace herself did not feel altogether
sure that Lord George had not had a hand in this robbery. It would have
been a trick worthy of a genuine Corsair, to arrange and carry out such a
scheme for the appropriation of so rich a spoil. A watch or a brooch
would, of course, be beneath the notice of a good genuine Corsair--of a
Corsair who was written down in the peerage as a marquis's brother; but
diamonds worth ten thousand pounds are not to be had every day. A Corsair
must live, and if not by plunder rich as that, how then? If Lord George
had concocted this little scheme, he would naturally be ignorant of the
true event of the robbery till he should meet the humble executors of his
design, and would, as Lizzie thought, have remained' unaware of the truth
till his arrival in London. That he had been ignorant of the truth during
the journey was evident to her. But they had now been three days in
London, during which she had seen him once. At that interview he had been
sullen and almost cross, and had said next to nothing about the robbery.
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