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Every costermonger in Whitechapel will wear genuine Koh-i-noors for buttons on his coat; every girl in Bermondsey will sport a rivière like Lady Vandrift's to her favourite music-hall. There's a slump in Golcondas. Sly, sly, I can see; but we know all about it!" Charles moved on, disgusted. The man's manners were atrocious. Near the Bank we ran up against a most respectable jobber.
Sir Charles sent up his card, and also Lady Vandrift's. These foreigners know title spells money in England. He was right in his surmise. Two minutes later the Count entered with our cards in his hands. A good-looking young man, with the characteristic Tyrolese long black moustache, dressed in a gentlemanly variant on the costume of the country. He waved us to seats. We sat down.
I was more than half ashamed of bothering them about the diamonds at such a moment, but it occurred to me that Amelia was probably right they would now have reached the end of the sum set apart for their Continental trip, and a little ready cash might be far from unwelcome. I broached the subject delicately. It was a fad of Lady Vandrift's, I said.
Could a man of Sir Charles Vandrift's integrity and high principle stoop for lucre's sake to so mean an expedient? not to mention the fact that, even if he did, and if Mosenheimer did likewise, the stones submitted to the scientific men would have amply sufficed to establish the reality and success of the experiments!
He asked the jury to dismiss from their minds entirely the impression created by what he frankly described as "Sir Charles Vandrift's obvious dishonesty." They must not allow the fact that he was a millionaire and a particularly shady one to prejudice their feelings in favour of the prisoner. Even the richest and vilest of men must be protected. Besides, this was a public question.
"A gentleman with very long hair and an aquiline nose, dark, strange, and handsome, called in at my department and asked if I could tell him the name of Sir Charles Vandrift's London banker. He said he had a sum to pay in to your credit, and asked if we would forward it for him.
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