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Updated: May 25, 2025
He packed necklet, ring, and star, with his own hands, in cotton-wool; and the cigarette-box held them so easily that at the last moment, when the box was closed, and the string ready, Raffles very nearly added a diamond bee-brooch at L51 10s. This temptation, however, he ultimately overcame, to the other's chagrin.
Too completely bewildered to speak, her trembling hand offered to him a slip of paper on which the amount of the debt and the expenses was set forth: L51 12s. 10d. With some difficulty the Jew preserved his gravity. "Very well," he resumed. She suddenly recovered her power of speech. "Give me the money!" she cried, with greedy impatience of delay.
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