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"Officer," she said, "is it important to the inquiry you are conducting, to know beforehand if any person now in this house wishes to leave it?" "Most important, my lady." "I have to tell you, then, that Miss Verinder proposes going to stay with her aunt, Mrs. Ablewhite, of Frizinghall. She has arranged to leave us the first thing to-morrow morning." Sergeant Cuff looked at me.
My servant took a letter to her the next day, with strict instructions to wait for an answer. The answer came back, literally in one sentence. "Miss Verinder begs to decline entering into any correspondence with Mr. Franklin Blake." Fond as I was of her, I felt indignantly the insult offered to me in that reply. Mr.
Another, dated a week on, for the remaining balance seventeen hundred pounds. How the Moonstone was trusted to the keeping of Mr Luker's bankers, and how the Indians treated Mr. Luker and Mr. The next event in your cousin's life refers again to Miss Verinder. One of his reasons for making this concession has been penetrated by Mr. Bruff.
If the matter is allowed to proceed, she will feel it to be her duty at a serious sacrifice of her own personal convenience to accompany Miss Verinder to Yorkshire. Under these circumstances, she ventures to request that I will kindly reconsider the subject; seeing that Miss Verinder declines to be guided by any opinion but mine.
"Some weeks ago," pursued the old gentleman, "my son informed me that Miss Verinder had done him the honour to engage herself to marry him. Is it possible, Rachel, that he can have misinterpreted or presumed upon what you really said to him?" "Certainly not," she replied. "I did engage myself to marry him." "Very frankly answered!" said Mr. Ablewhite. "And most satisfactory, my dear, so far.
"I may possibly make it less painful to you, and to my good servant and friend here," she said, "if I set the example of speaking boldly, on my side. You suspect Miss Verinder of deceiving us all, by secreting the Diamond for some purpose of her own? Is that true?" "Quite true, my lady." "Very well.
I am not only persuaded of Herncastle's guilt; I am even fanciful enough to believe that he will live to regret it, if he keeps the Diamond; and that others will live to regret taking it from him, if he gives the Diamond away. The events related by GABRIEL BETTEREDGE, house-steward in the service of JULIA, LADY VERINDER.
It is, he thinks, clearly necessary that a gentleman possessed of the average allowance of common sense, should accompany Miss Verinder to the scene of, what we will venture to call, the proposed exhibition. For want of a better escort, Mr. Bruff himself will be that gentleman. So here is poor Miss Verinder provided with two "chaperones."
I expected, of course, to receive some special directions for the management of my daughter's health. To my surprise, he took me gravely by the hand, and said, 'I have been looking at you, Lady Verinder, with a professional as well as a personal interest.
"Next," proceeded the Sergeant, "and last, I propose to send one of my brother-officers to make an arrangement with that money-lender in London, whom I mentioned just now as formerly acquainted with Rosanna Spearman and whose name and address, your ladyship may rely on it, have been communicated by Rosanna to Miss Verinder.
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