"Yes, if you
think good will come of it." The acquiescence was given with much
hesitation; but the circumstances required that it should be so, and Lady
Glencora fully understood the circumstances. When she took her leave,
Lizzie was profuse in her gratitude. "Oh, Lady Glencora, it has been so
good of you to come. Pray come again, if you can spare me another moment."
Lady Glencora said that she would come again.
During the visit she had asked some question concerning Lucinda and Sir
Griffin, and had been informed that that marriage was to go on. A hint had
been thrown out as to Lucinda's parentage; but Lizzie had not understood
the hint, and the question had not been pressed.
CHAPTER LV
QUINTS OR SEMITENTHS
The task which Lady Glencora had taken upon herself was not a very easy
one. No doubt Lord Fawn was a man subservient to the leaders of his party,
much afraid of the hard judgment of those with whom, he was concerned,
painfully open to impression from what he would have called public
opinion, to a certain extent a coward, most anxious to do right so that he
might not be accused of being in the wrong, and at the same time gifted
with but little of that insight into things which teaches men to know what
is right and what is wrong.
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