I think Miss
Morris would make a very nice wife for a country clergyman who didn't care
how poor things were. But she has no style; and as far as I can see she
has no beauty. Why should such a man as Frank Greystock tie himself by the
leg for ever to such a girl as that? But, mamma, he doesn't mean to marry
Lucy Morris. Would he have been going on in that way with his cousin down
in Scotland had he meant it? He means nothing of the kind. He means to
marry Lady Eustace's income if he can get it; and she would marry him
before the summer, if only we could keep Frederic away from her."
Mrs. Hittaway demanded from her mother that in season and out of season
she should be urgent with Lord Fawn, impressing upon him the necessity of
waiting, in order that he might see how false Lady Eustace was to him; and
also that she should teach Lucy Morris how vain were all her hopes. If
Lucy Morris would withdraw her claims altogether the thing might probably
be more quickly and more surely managed. If Lucy could be induced to tell
Frank that she withdrew her claim, and that she saw how impossible it was
that they should ever be man and wife, then--so argued Mrs.
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