"
"Mrs. Carbuncle is--is--is--. Oh, Lord George, don't you know what she
is?"
"I know that Mrs. Carbuncle is in a very bad way, and that that girl has
gone crazy, and that poor Griff has taken himself off to Japan, and that I
am so knocked about that I don't know where to go; and somehow it seems
all to have come from your little manoeuvres. You see we have all of us
been made remarkable; haven't we?"
"You are always remarkable, Lord George."
"And it is all your doing. To be sure you have lost your diamonds for your
pains. I wouldn't mind it so much if anybody were the better for it. I
shouldn't have begrudged even Benjamin the pull, if he'd got it."
He stood there, still looking down upon her, speaking with a sarcastic
submissive tone, and, as she felt, intending to be severe to her. Though
she believed that she hated him, she would have liked to get up some show
of an affectionate farewell; some scene, in which there might have been
tears, and tenderness, and poetry, and perhaps a parting caress; but with
his jeering words and sneering face, he was as hard as a rock. He was now
silent, but still looking down upon her as he stood motionless on the rug,
so that she was compelled to speak again.
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