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The Eustace Diamonds
章节(80)
- I: Lizzie Greystock 0:00
- II: Lady Eustace 21:07
- III: Lucy Morris 41:52
- IV: Frank Greystock 1:03:53
- V: The Eustace Necklace 1:24:10
- VI: Lady Linlithgow’s Mission 1:53:03
- VII: Mr. Burke’s Speeches 2:12:51
- VIII: The Conquering Hero Comes 2:35:30
- IX: Showing What the Miss Fawns Said, and What Mrs. Hittaway Thought 2:50:45
- X: Lizzie and Her Lover 3:19:35
- XI: Lord Fawn at His Office 3:48:58
- XII: “I Only Thought of It” 4:03:23
- XIII: Showing What Frank Greystock Did 4:18:53
- XIV: “Doan’t Thou Marry for Munny” 4:41:36
- XV: “I’ll Give You a Hundred Guinea Brooch” 5:04:32
- XVI: Certainly an Heirloom 5:30:55
- XVII: The Diamonds Are Seen in Public 5:49:02
- XVIII: “And I Have Nothing to Give” 6:09:28
- XIX: “As My Brother” 6:34:55
- XX: The Diamonds Become Troublesome 7:00:46
- XXI: “Ianthe’s Soul” 7:14:13
- XXII: Lady Eustace Procures a Pony for the Use of Her Cousin 7:42:18
- XXIII: Frank Greystock’s First Visit to Portray 7:55:49
- XXIV: Showing What Frank Greystock Thought About Marriage 8:20:18
- XXV: Mr. Dove’s Opinion 8:37:39
- XXVI: Mr. Gowran Is Very Funny 8:52:27
- XXVII: Lucy Morris Misbehaves 9:18:53
- XXVIII: Mr. Dove in His Chambers 9:32:37
- XXIX: “I Had Better Go Away” 9:59:40
- XXX: Mr. Greystock’s Troubles 10:20:29
- XXXI: Frank Greystock’s Second Visit to Portray 10:41:53
- XXXII: Mr. and Mrs. Hittaway in Scotland 11:10:14
- XXXIII: “It Won’t Be True” 11:24:05
- XXXIV: Lady Linlithgow at Home 11:46:03
- XXXV: Too Bad for Sympathy 12:04:48
- XXXVI: Lizzie’s Guests 12:27:49
- XXXVII: Lizzie’s First Day 12:46:53
- XXXVIII: Nappie’s Grey Horse 13:14:49
- XXXIX: Sir Griffin Takes an Unfair Advantage 13:49:59
- XL: “You Are Not Angry?” 14:00:26
- XLI: “Likewise the Bears in Couples Agree” 14:10:02
- XLII: Sunday Morning 14:31:56
- XLIII: Life at Portray 14:45:10
- XLIV: A Midnight Adventure 15:08:20
- XLV: The Journey to London 15:32:32
- XLVI: Lucy Morris in Brook Street 15:51:56
- XLVII: Matching Priory 16:19:37
- XLVIII: Lizzie’s Condition 16:41:11
- XLIX: Bunfit and Gager 16:55:03
- L: In Hertford Street 17:16:37
- LI: Confidence 17:37:31
- LII: Mrs. Carbuncle Goes to the Theatre 17:50:45
- LIII: Lizzie’s Sickroom 18:17:22
- LIV: “I Suppose I May Say a Word” 18:44:43
- LV: Quints or Semitenths 19:06:13
- LVI: Job’s Comforters 19:16:24
- LVII: Humpty Dumpty 19:40:02
- LVIII: The Fiddle with One String 20:05:03
- LIX: Mr. Gowran Up in London 20:15:24
- LX: “Let It Be as Though It Had Never Been” 20:36:49
- LXI: Lizzie’s Great Friend 21:04:32
- LXII: “You Know Where My Heart Is” 21:40:52
- LXIII: The Corsair Is Afraid 21:58:09
- LXIV: Lizzie’s Last Scheme 22:15:26
- LXV: Tribute 22:29:02
- LXVI: The Aspirations of Mr. Emilius 22:49:57
- LXVII: The Eye of the Public 23:10:59
- LXVIII: The Major 23:31:41
- LXIX: “I Cannot Do It” 23:53:31
- LXX: Alas! 24:22:13
- LXXI: Lizzie Is Threatened with the Treadmill 24:35:41
- LXXII: Lizzie Triumphs 25:01:13
- LXXIII: Lizzie’s Last Lover 25:18:47
- LXXIV: Lizzie at the Police-Court 25:48:32
- LXXV: Lord George Gives His Reasons 26:02:55
- LXXVI: Lizzie Returns to Scotland 26:16:57
- LXXVII: The Story of Lucy Morris Is Concluded 26:45:22
- LXXVIII: The Trial 27:07:20
- LXXIX: Once More at Portray 27:27:43
- LXXX: What Was Said About It All at Matching 27:49:51
Lady Eustace—more familiarly known as Lizzie—is very beautiful, very clever, and very rich. On closer inspection, she turns out also to be a “nasty, low, scheming, ill-conducted, dishonest little wretch.” Her calculated marriage to a wealthy but sickly young baronet brought her the wealth she desired, including a spectacular diamond necklace which she wore in the days before her husband’s demise. Upon his death, the lawyer for the estate is determined to recover it as a family heirloom. The young widow is equally determined to keep it as her own.
But just as Lizzie sought a life of ease by marrying money, so too there are those who see in Lady Eustace their opportunity to acquire riches along with the beautiful widow herself. Given the relentless, even fierce, legal forces she faces regarding the diamonds, Lizzie is also alert to the benefit she would enjoy from having a husband to support her. But which is it to be? The tedious Lord Fawn, who would bring a title? Her cousin and confidant, Frank Greystock, who is a member of Parliament but saddled with debt? Or the debonair but dubious Lord George de Bruce Carruthers? Or perhaps none of them!
Lizzie’s life of lies and calculation has echoes and mirrors in the novel’s subplots. She falls in with an unsavory and scheming set which includes a desperately ill-suited couple being driven towards a potentially disastrous marriage. Meanwhile, the love life of her childhood friend, the plain, poor, and pure Lucy Morris, seems to be the antithesis to Lizzie’s own.
Anthony Trollope felt real ambivalence about the growing interest in mystery novels, whose popularity was burgeoning as he sat down to write The Eustace Diamonds. Wilkie Collins’s The Moonstone had just been published to huge success, giving birth to the detective novel genre. Trollope would have none of it, and kept no secrets from his readers. That The Eustace Diamonds maintains a sense of drama and intrigue in spite of Trollope’s forthright narration is a testament to his skill as a storyteller.
There are also signs of Trollope plotting a future course for his Palliser series, of which The Eustace Diamonds is the third. Political life is not absent, but it is wholly subservient to the events that swirl around Lizzie and her companions. As the novel closes, Trollope winks at his readers, informing us that we haven’t seen the last of Lizzie Eustace yet.