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It should be said though that she shrank from all self-assertion, comporting herself with much modesty, ever keeping in the background, striving to hide her lustre, invariably clad in black and unadorned by a single jewel, although she was the wife of a Parisian diamond-merchant. "Oh! for my part," she murmured, "as long as I am not hustled too much I am well pleased."
You seem to forget that I have been a successful diamond-merchant." "I don't see the connection, Enoch," returned the other, with a faint smile. "That's because you've never been out of London, and can't believe in anybody who hasn't been borne or at least bred, within the sound of Bow Bells.
You can cash that cheque in the meantime, and ascertain with whom you have to deal. Good morning." He left the diamond-merchant wondering at his sang froid, and returned to the cab, which had been waiting for him all this time.
"Good-bye, diamond-merchant, good-bye, good-bye," Latkin drawled several times in succession, making a low bow, seeming delighted at having at last got hold of an intelligible word. My head began to go round. "What does it all mean?" I asked of an old woman who was looking out of the window of the little house.
Her own uncle, the venerable Ben Solomons, with a beard as long as a cashmere goat's, and a reputation for learning and piety which still lives in his nation, quarrelled with his son Moses, the red-haired diamond-merchant of Trebizond, and his son Simeon, the bald bill-broker of Bagdad, each putting in a claim for their cousin.
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