[The Eustace Diamonds by Anthony Trollope]@TWC D-Link bookThe Eustace Diamonds CHAPTER XIII 17/26
But she is marking the old oaks.
What the deuce can she want money for ?" "Fawn will put all that right." "He'll have to do it," said Eustace.
"Since she has been down with the old Lady Fawn, she has written a note to Camperdown,--after leaving all his letters unanswered for the last twelvemonth,--to tell him that Lord Fawn is to have nothing to do with her property, and that certain people, called Mowbray and Mopus, are her lawyers. Camperdown is in an awful way about it." "Lord Fawn will put it all right," said Frank. "Camperdown is afraid that he won't.
They've met twice since the engagement was made, and Camperdown says that, at the last meeting, Fawn gave himself airs, or was, at any rate, unpleasant.
There were words about those diamonds." "You don't mean to say that Lord Fawn wants to keep your brother's family jewels ?" "Camperdown didn't say that exactly;--but Fawn made no offer of giving them up.
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