As Lucy was in peculiar distress, Lady
Fawn would not allow her to come by any other conveyance. She did not
exactly think that the carriage would console her poor favourite; but she
did it as she would have ordered something specially nice to eat for any
one who had broken his leg. Her soft heart had compassion for misery,
though she would sometimes show her sympathy by strange expressions. Lady
Linlithgow was almost angry about the carriage. "How many carriages and
how many horses does Lady Fawn keep?" she asked.
"One carriage and two horses."
"She's very fond of sending them up into the streets of London, I think."
Lucy said nothing more, knowing that it would be impossible to soften the
heart of this dowager in regard to the other. But she kissed the old woman
at parting, and then was taken down to Richmond in state.
She had made up her mind to have one discussion with Lady Fawn about her
engagement, the engagement which was no longer an engagement, and then to
have done with it. She would ask Lady Fawn to ask the girls never to
mention Mr. Greystock's name in her hearing. Lady Fawn had also made up
her mind to the same effect.
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