I hope the gentlemen have not kept all the policy to
themselves; and there is one associate that I would gladly admit to our
counsel."
"Not Nancy?"
"O, no!" said Miss Ilderton; "Nancy, though an excellent good girl,
and fondly attached to you, would make a dull conspirator--as dull as
Renault and all the other subordinate plotters in VENICE PRESERVED. No;
this is a Jaffier, or Pierre, if you like the character better; and yet
though I know I shall please you, I am afraid to mention his name to
you, lest I vex you at the same time. Can you not guess? Something
about an eagle and a rock--it does not begin with eagle in English, but
something very like it in Scotch."
"You cannot mean young Earnscliff, Lucy?" said Miss Vere, blushing
deeply.
"And whom else should I mean," said Lucy. "Jaffiers and Pierres are very
scarce in this country, I take it, though one could find Renaults and
Bedamars enow."
"How call you talk so wildly, Lucy? Your plays and romances have
positively turned your brain.
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