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He had wondered vaguely turning over many things in the fidget of his thoughts if Mamie WERE as pretty as Woollett published her; as to which issue seeing her now again was to be so swept away by Woollett's opinion that this consequence really let loose for the imagination an avalanche of others.
The sale's out of the question, as you know; the thing's only salable to those who would collar the thief at once, and who wouldn't have the thing in their places now for anything. So that it must be taken to keep, and that's a thing nobody but the maddest of collectors would do, just such persons as " and the inspector nodded again toward Mr. Woollett's quarters.
Paul's, but in a village churchyard. Vivid could not help remarking to a brother mourner, that, in his opinion, the profession of a painter was as much overrated as that of an engraver was underrated: "for," he added, "what real and unprejudiced connoisseur, while contemplating Woollett's Roman Edifices from Claude, and Sir Robert Strange's Titian's Mistress from Titian, with many others, would not acknowledge, that the copy in many instances so rivalled, if not surpassed, the original, that it became a decided question, which artist ought to carry off the palm?"
Plummer produced the case, which he had in his coat-tail pocket, for Hewitt's inspection. "I don't see anything particular about it; do you?" he said. "It shows us the way they went, though, being found just here." "Well, yes," Hewitt said; "if we kept on in this direction, we should be going toward Mr. Woollett's house, and his trap-door, shouldn't we!"
"Well," said Plummer, as he returned the case to his pocket, "what's your opinion?" "It's rather an awkward case." "Yes, it is. Between ourselves I don't mind telling you I'm having a sharp lookout kept over there" Plummer jerked his head in the direction of Mr. Woollett's chambers "because the robbery's an unusual one. There's only two possible motives the sale of the cameo or the keeping of it.
Woollett's name for a moment in connection with such a matter; I am personally perfectly certain that he is as incapable of anything like theft as myself. But I am telling you all I know." "Precisely. I can't know too much in a case like this. It can do no harm if I know all about fifty innocent people, and may save me from the risk of knowing nothing about the thief. Now, let me see: Mr.
"Do the roofs above any of those windows communicate in any way with yours?" "None of those directly opposite. Those at the left do; you may walk all the way along the leads." "And whose windows are they?" Mr. Claridge hesitated. "Well," he said, "they're Mr. Woollett's, an excellent customer of mine. But he's a gentleman, and well, I really think it's absurd to suspect him."
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