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From the elementary works of geometry, Galileo passed to the writings of Archimedes; and while he was studying the hydrostatical treatise of the Syracusan philosopher, he wrote his essay on the hydrostatical balance, in which he describes the construction of the instrument, and the method by which Archimedes detected the fraud committed by the jeweller in the composition of Hiero's crown.
Then she saluted the jeweller with a graceful countenance, and said to him, I am informed with what zeal you have engaged in the prince of Persia's concerns and mine; but, without immediately forming a design to express my gratitude, I thank Heaven, which has so soon made up Ebn Thaher's loss.
'I know it by yonder damsel, replied the jeweller, 'who is Shemsennehar's slave-girl; for she came to me awhile since with a written order for a necklace of jewels; and I sent her a costly one. When Ali heard this, he was greatly troubled, so that the jeweller feared for his life, but after awhile he recovered himself and said, 'O my brother, I conjure thee by Allah to tell me truly how thou knowest her. 'Do not press me as to this, replied the other; and Ali said, 'Indeed, I will not desist from thee till thou tell me the truth. 'Then, said the jeweller, 'I will tell thee all, that thou mayst not distrust me nor be alarmed at what I said, nor will I conceal aught from thee, but will discover to thee the truth of the matter, on condition that thou possess me with the true state of thy case and the cause of thy sickness. Then he told him all that had passed between Aboulhusn and himself, adding that he had acted thus only out of friendship for him and of his desire to serve him and assuring him that he would keep his secret and venture life and goods in his service.
"I want to show you a ring," said Aunt Deborah, abruptly. "Tell me what it's worth." She produced the ring which the false Ferdinand had intrusted to her. The jeweller scanned it closely. "It's a good imitation of a diamond ring," he said. "Imitation!" gasped Deborah. "Yes; you didn't think it was genuine?" "What's it worth?" "The value of the gold. That appears to be genuine.
The jeweller, being astonished at this request, answered, "Gentlemen, it is probable you know it already." "That is true," replied they; "the young man and the young lady, who were at your house yesternight, told it us; but we would know it from your own mouth." The jeweller needed no more to inform him that he spoke to the robbers who had broken into and plundered his house.
"You are so dotingly fond of your daughter!" said the Major with a leer. "It is necessary that I should give her a present." "Precisely, and you won't even trust the business to a jeweller; you insist on doing it all yourself." "I shall do it for less money than a jeweller." "Oh, of course," answered Major Vernon; "the motive's as clear as daylight."
It is high time, Timothy, that we now make up our accounts, and arrange some plans for the future," replied I. "I have paid the jeweller and the tailor, by the advice of the Major, who says, that you should always pay your first bills as soon as possible, and all your subsequent bills as late as possible; and if put off sine die, so much the better.
In the mean time, I find myself compelled to beg another service from your kindness. I can obtain, against a note of hand payable in six months, a ring of the value of two hundred sequins, and I am certain to sell it again this very day for the same amount. That sum, is very necessary to me just now, but the jeweller, who knows you, will not let me have it without your security.
He had learned that the Jew jeweller had made a determined set at them, having in the first place hired housebreakers to steal them at Carlisle, and having again hired the same housebreakers to steal them from the house in Hertford Street, as soon as he knew that Lady Eustace had herself secreted them.
"When they saw I made no reply, they asked the prince once more who he was, for they told him they plainly perceived he was not the person he pretended to be. He did not satisfy them much more than I had done; he only told them he came to see the jeweller, naming him, who was the owner of the house where they found us.
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