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Title: The Eustace Diamonds
Author: Anthony Trollope
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THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS
BY ANTHONY TROLLOPE

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I.
LIZZIE GREYSTOCK II. LADY EUSTACE III. LUCY MORRIS IV. FRANK GREYSTOCK V. THE EUSTACE NECKLACE VI. LADY LINLITHGOW'S MISSION VII. MR. BURKE'S SPEECHES VIII. THE CONQUERING HERO COMES IX. SHOWING WHAT THE MISS FAWNS SAID, AND WHAT MRS. HITTAWAY THOUGHT X. LIZZIE AND HER LOVER XI. LORD FAWN AT HIS OFFICE XII. I ONLY THOUGHT OF IT XIII. SHOWING WHAT FRANK GREYSTOCK DID XIV. "DOAN'T THOU MARRY FOR MUNNY!" XV. "I'LL GIVE YOU A HUNDRED-GUINEA BROOCH" XVI. CERTAINLY AN HEIRLOOM XVII. THE DIAMONDS ARE SEEN IN PUBLIC XVIII. AND I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE XIX. AS MY BROTHER XX. THE DIAMONDS BECOME TROUBLESOME XXI. "IANTHE'S SOUL" XXII. LADY EUSTACE PROCURES A PONY FOR THE USE OF HER COUSIN XXIII. FRANK GREYSTOCK'S FIRST VISIT TO PORTRAY XXIV. SHOWING WHAT FRANK GREYSTOCK THOUGHT ABOUT MARRIAGE XXV. MR. DOVE'S OPINION XXVI. MR. GOWRAN IS VERY FUNNY XXVII. LUCY MORRIS MISBEHAVES XXVIII. MR. DOVE IN HIS CHAMBERS XXIX. I HAD BETTER GO AWAY XXX. MR. GREYSTOCK'S TROUBLES XXXI. FRANK GREYSTOCK'S SECOND VISIT TO PORTRAY XXXII. MR. AND MRS. HITTAWAY IN SCOTLAND XXXIII. IT WON'T BE TRUE XXXIV. LADY LINLITHGOW AT HOME XXXV. TOO BAD FOR SYMPATHY XXXVI. LIZZIE'S GUESTS XXXVII. LIZZIE'S FIRST DAY XXXVIII. NAPPIE'S GRAY HORSE XXXIX. SIR GRIFFIN TAKES AN UNFAIR ADVANTAGE XL. YOU ARE NOT ANGRY XLI. LIKEWISE THE BEARS IN COUPLES AGREE XLII. SUNDAY MORNING XLIII. LIFE AT PORTRAY XLIV. A MIDNIGHT ADVENTURE XLV. THE JOURNEY TO LONDON XLVI. LUCY MORRIS IN BROOK STREET XLVII. MATCHING PRIORY XLVIII. LIZZIE'S CONDITION XLIX. BUNFIT AND GAGER L. IN HERTFORD STREET LI. CONFIDENCE LII. MRS. CARBUNCLE GOES TO THE THEATRE LIII. LIZZIE'S SICK-ROOM LIV. "I SUPPOSE I MAY SAY A WORD" LV. QUINTS OR SEMITENTHS LVI. JOB'S COMFORTERS LVII. HUMPTY DUMPTY LVIII. THE "FIDDLE WITH ONE STRING" LIX. MR. GOWRAN UP IN LONDON LX. LET IT BE AS THOUGH IT HAD NEVER BEEN LXI. LIZZIE'S GREAT FRIEND LXII. "YOU KNOW WHERE MY HEART IS" LXIII. THE CORSAIR IS AFRAID LXIV. LIZZIE'S LAST SCHEME LXV. TRIBUTE LXVI. THE ASPIRATIONS OF MR. EMILIUS LXVII. THE EYE OF THE PUBLIC LXVIII. THE MAJOR LXIX. "I CANNOT DO IT" LXX. ALAS! LXXI. LIZZIE IS THREATENED WITH THE TREADMILL LXXII. LIZZIE'S TRIUMPHS LXXIII. LIZZIE'S LAST LOVER LXXIV. LIZZIE AT THE POLICE-COURT LXXV. LORD GEORGE GIVES HIS REASONS LXXVI. LIZZIE RETURNS TO SCOTLAND LXXVII. THE STORY OF LUCY MORRIS IS CONCLUDED LXXVIII. THE TRIAL LXXIX. ONCE MORE AT PORTRAY LXXX. WHAT WAS SAID ABOUT IT ALL AT MATCHING

THE EUSTACE DIAMONDS
CHAPTER I
LIZZIE GREYSTOCK
It was admitted by all her friends, and also by her enemies--who were in truth the more numerous and active body of the two--that Lizzie Greystock had done very well with herself. We will tell the story of Lizzie Greystock from the beginning, but we will not dwell over it at great length, as we might do if we loved her. She was the only child of old Admiral Greystock, who in the latter years of his life was much perplexed by the possession of a daughter. The admiral was a man who liked whist, wine--and wickedness in general we may perhaps say, and whose ambition it was to live every day of his life up to the end of it. People say that he succeeded, and that the whist, wine, and wickedness were there, at the side even of his dying bed. He had no particular fortune, and yet his daughter, when she was little more than a child,