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Updated: July 4, 2025
"What other man?" "Well, the Jewdwines' doctor." "What did he say?" "Nothing. It was Jewdwine. He told me well that was why their engagement was broken off. Because she wasn't strong enough to marry." Kitty's eyes blazed. "He told you that?" "Not exactly. He couldn't, you know. I only thought their doctor must have told him something terrible." "I don't suppose he told him anything of the sort."
Therefore Edith was furious with Sophia Roots, the cause of this disaster, who must have known that even if Lucia was too weak-minded to refuse her most improper invitation, that invitation ought never to have been given. Edith had her pride, the pride of all the Jewdwines and the Hardens; and her private grievances gave way before a family catastrophe.
Three days after Maddox's extraordinary disclosures Lucia had become most obviously and inconsiderately ill; and had given her cousin Edith a great deal of trouble as well as a severe fright, till Kitty, also frightened, had carried her off to Devonshire out of the house of the Jewdwines. To Horace the working of events was on the whole beneficent.
Of all his looks it was the one that she used to like best. "So you've come back again?" he said. "But I never was away." "I thought you were abroad?" "Who told you that?" "I don't know. I suppose I must have dreamt it." "I think you must. I've been in town for the last six weeks." "In town?" "Yes, if Hampstead's town. I've been staying with the Jewdwines. Didn't he tell you?"
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