"As for the loss of the diamonds, I think you bear
it wonderfully," said Lady Glencora.
"If you could imagine how little I care about it!" said Lizzie with
enthusiasm. "They had lost the delight which I used to feel in them as a
present from my husband. People had talked about them, and I had been
threatened because I chose to keep what I knew to be my own. Of course I
would not give them up. Would you have given them up, Lady Glencora?"
"Certainly not."
"Nor would I. But when once all that had begun, they became an
irrepressible burden to me. I often used to say that I would throw them
into the sea."
"I don't think I would have done that," said Lady Glencora.
"Ah--you have never suffered as I have suffered."
"We never know where each other's shoes pinch each other's toes."
"You have never been left desolate. You have a husband and friends."
"A husband that wants to put five farthings into a penny! All is not gold
that glistens, Lady Eustace."
"You can never have known trials such as mine," continued Lizzie, not
understanding in the least her new friend's allusion to the great currency
question. "Perhaps you may have heard that in the course of last summer I
became engaged to marry a nobleman, with whom I am aware that you are
acquainted.
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