The Eustace Diamonds

The Eustace Diamonds

By Anthony Trollope.

Table of Contents

1. Titlepage
2. Imprint
3. I: Lizzie Greystock
4. II: Lady Eustace
5. III: Lucy Morris
6. IV: Frank Greystock
7. V: The Eustace Necklace
8. VI: Lady Linlithgow’s Mission
9. VII: Mr. Burke’s Speeches
10. VIII: The Conquering Hero Comes
11. IX: Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought
12. X: Lizzie and Her Lover
13. XI: Lord Fawn at His Office
14. XII: “I Only Thought of It”
15. XIII: Showing What Frank Greystock Did
16. XIV: “Doan’t Thou Marry for Munny”
17. XV: “I’ll Give You a Hundred Guinea Brooch”
18. XVI: Certainly an Heirloom
19. XVII: The Diamonds Are Seen in Public
20. XVIII: “And I Have Nothing to Give”
21. XIX: “As My Brother”
22. XX: The Diamonds Become Troublesome
23. XXI: “Ianthe’s Soul”
24. XXII: Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the Use of Her Cousin
25. XXIII: Frank Greystock’s First Visit to Portray
26. XXIV: Showing What Frank Greystock Thought About Marriage
27. XXV: Mr. Dove’s Opinion
28. XXVI: Mr. Gowran Is Very Funny
29. XXVII: Lucy Morris Misbehaves
30. XXVIII: Mr. Dove in His Chambers
31. XXIX: “I Had Better Go Away”
32. XXX: Mr. Greystock’s Troubles
33. XXXI: Frank Greystock’s Second Visit to Portray
34. XXXII: Mr. and Mrs. Hittaway in Scotland
35. XXXIII: “It Won’t Be True”
36. XXXIV: Lady Linlithgow at Home
37. XXXV: Too Bad for Sympathy
38. XXXVI: Lizzie’s Guests
39. XXXVII: Lizzie’s First Day
40. XXXVIII: Nappie’s Grey Horse
41. XXXIX: Sir Griffin Takes an Unfair Advantage
42. XL: “You Are Not Angry?”
43. XLI: “Likewise the Bears in Couples Agree”
44. XLII: Sunday Morning
45. XLIII: Life at Portray
46. XLIV: A Midnight Adventure
47. XLV: The Journey to London
48. XLVI: Lucy Morris in Brook Street
49. XLVII: Matching Priory
50. XLVIII: Lizzie’s Condition
51. XLIX: Bunfit and Gager
52. L: In Hertford Street
53. LI: Confidence
54. LII: Mrs. Carbuncle Goes to the Theatre
55. LIII: Lizzie’s Sickroom
56. LIV: “I Suppose I May Say a Word”
57. LV: Quints or Semitenths
58. LVI: Job’s Comforters
59. LVII: Humpty Dumpty
60. LVIII: The Fiddle with One String
61. LIX: Mr. Gowran Up in London
62. LX: “Let It Be as Though It Had Never Been”
63. LXI: Lizzie’s Great Friend
64. LXII: “You Know Where My Heart Is”
65. LXIII: The Corsair Is Afraid
66. LXIV: Lizzie’s Last Scheme
67. LXV: Tribute
68. LXVI: The Aspirations of Mr. Emilius
69. LXVII: The Eye of the Public
70. LXVIII: The Major
71. LXIX: “I Cannot Do It”
72. LXX: Alas!
73. LXXI: Lizzie Is Threatened with the Treadmill
74. LXXII: Lizzie Triumphs
75. LXXIII: Lizzie’s Last Lover
76. LXXIV: Lizzie at the Police-Court
77. LXXV: Lord George Gives His Reasons
78. LXXVI: Lizzie Returns to Scotland
79. LXXVII: The Story of Lucy Morris Is Concluded
80. LXXVIII: The Trial
81. LXXIX: Once More at Portray
82. LXXX: What Was Said About It All at Matching
83. Colophon
84. Uncopyright

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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, went about everywhere with jewels on her fingers, and red gems hanging round her neck, and yellow gems pendent from her ears, and white gems shining in her black hair. She was hardly nineteen when her father died and she was taken home by that dreadful old termagant, her aunt, Lady Linlithgow. Lizzie would have sooner gone to any other friend or relative, had there been any other friend or relative to take her possessed of a house in town. Her uncle, Dean Greystock, of Bobsborough, would have had her, and a more good-natured old soul than the dean’s wife did not exist⁠—and there were