” He
stated matter-of-factly. Skirting the noble
gardens of Montague House, (now, we need scarcely say, the British Museum,)
the party speedily reached Great Russell Street,—a quarter described by Strype,
in his edition of old Stow's famous Survey, "as being graced with the best
buildings in all Bloomsbury, and the best inhabited by the nobility and gentry,
especially the north side, as having gardens behind the houses, and the prospect
of the pleasant fields up to Hampstead and Highgate; insomuch that this place,
by physicians, is esteemed the most healthful of any in London. Her cheeks were the colour of chalk, her eyes were filled with terror. With the aid of a penknife he ripped the shoulder seams and drew out the
ten one-thousand dollar bills. ‘What’s this? Impertinence! French manners, is it?’
‘Grace à vous,’ Melusine threw at him fiercely. For
the present, he murmured his farewells, and turning, caught Hilary’s eye and
walked away, crossing the ballroom to move into the less opulent, and less
crowded, saloon next door where servants were dispensing refreshments. But his treasured dream lay shattered at his feet. "
"Would you be angry if I offered it to you?"
"Very. don’t have time. They steal over to Copeley's at night and dispose of the pearl
for cash. “Why don’t you?”
“Well, it might mean rather a row. I’ll have to make a visit out of town. It would seem, from the attention which he evidently bestowed upon the hidden
and complex machinery of the grand system of villany at work around him, that
his chief object in taking up his quarters in the Mint, must have been to obtain
some private information respecting the habits and practices of its inhabitants, to
be turned to account hereafter. "It would avail him little if he did," replied Kneebone.
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