Anthony Trollope, The Eustace Diamonds: Reading Notes, Part VI
Lizzie's houseguests are almost entirely comprised of fortune hunters, including the adventuress Mrs. Carbuncle, her ally Lord George de Bruce Carruthers, and her icy neice Miss Lucinda Roanoke.
Odd courtship of the impatient Sir Griffin Tewitt and Lucinda. On his second proposal, when she inquires if he is quite sure of his intentions, he sputters "I'm not a man who does things without thinking; and when I've thought, I don't want to think again."
Having accepted Sir Griffin, the reluctant fortune huntress Lucinda remarks to her aunt "I hate a good many people; but of all the people in the world I hate Sir Griffin Tewitt the worst. . . . I shall have to lie to him, -- but there shall be no lying to you, however you may wish it."
Mrs. Carbuncle on marital realities: "not that girls ever really care about men now. They've got to be married, and they make the best of it."
Lucinda accepts a kiss from Sir Griffin, though "she would sooner have leaped at the blackest, darkest, dirtiest river in the county."
And then, when Lucinda is by herself: "She burst into tears. Never before had she been this polluted. The embrace had disgusted her. And if this, the beginning of it, were so bad, how was she to drink the cup to the bitter dregs?"
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