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"O no, no," hastily exclainant look

"If so be you have, Grace Loveday, two can play at that gah to turn back What hair it is! Feel the weight of it! There's not another head of the do out the severed tresses with the satisfaction of a connoisseur "No wonder madame could not let this be wasted on the plantations, when you and I and M le Griseur know her own hair is getting thinner than she would wish a certain Colonel to guess There! the pretty dear, what a baby she looks! I will tie her on a cowl, lest she should take cold on the river See these rings Did you Lady give no charge about the-wo them back, old fan parts; but I cannot, cannot do it To rob that pretty creature in her sleep"

"Never fear She'll soon have a store much finer than these! You fool, I tell you she will not wake these six or eight hours Afraid? There, I'll do it! Ho! A ruby? A love-token, I wager; and what's this? A carved Cupid I could turn a pretty penny by that, when your lady finds it convenient, and her luck at play goes against her Eh! is this a wedding-ring? Best take that off; Mr Van Draagen ht not understand it, you see Here they are Have you a patch-box handy for them in your pocket? Why what ails the woman? You may thank your stars there's so, I say, her coarden path, the foremost small and dapper, with a ready address and astute countenance "All right, Mother Darkness, is our consignht?"

"This lady has it," said Mrs Darke, pointing to Loveday; "I have been telling her she need have no fears for her young kinswoman in your hands, Captain"

He swore a round oath to that effect, and looking at the sleeping oods ever confided to him, and that he knew better than let such an article arrive daht to come down handsomely for such an extra fine sauineas that Loveday handed to his last night at loo