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`` It 's very hard upon you , '' said Mrs. Carbuncle . `` Unless I stole them , '' continued Lord George . `` Which is so absurd , you know , '' said Lizzie . `` That a pig-headed provincial fool should have taken me for a midnight thief , did not disturb me much . I do n't think I am very easily annoyed by what other people think of me . But these fellows , I suppose , were sent here by the head of the metropolitan police ; and everybody knows that they have been sent . Because I was civil enough to you women to look after you coming up to town , and because one of you was careless enough to lose her jewels , I -- I am to be talked about all over London as the man who took them ! ''