This she did, no doubt, with the sole object of saving her
brother; but she did it with a zeal that dealt as freely with Frank's name
as with Lizzie's. They, with all their friends, were her enemies, and she
was quite sure that they were, altogether, a wicked degraded set of
people. Of Lord George and Mrs. Carbuncle, of Miss Roanoke and Sir Griffin
Tewett she believed all manner of evil. She had theories of her own about
the jewels, stories--probably of her own manufacture in part, although no
doubt she believed them to be true--as to the manner of living at Portray,
little histories of Lizzie's debts, and the great fact of the scene which
Mr. Gowran had seen with his own eyes. Lizzie Eustace was an abomination
to her, and this abominable woman her brother was again in danger of
marrying! She was very loud in her denunciations, and took care that they
should reach even Lady Linlithgow, so that poor Lucy Morris might know of
what sort was the lover in whom she trusted. Andy Gowran had been sent for
to town, and was on his journey while Mr. Gager was engaged at Ramsgate.
It was at present the great object of Mrs. Hittaway's life to induce her
brother to see Mr.
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