[The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins]@TWC D-Link bookThe Moonstone CHAPTER XI 2/53
Then she said, "on her dressing-table, of course, along with her other things." Then she remembered that the Diamond might take to shining of itself, with its awful moony light in the dark--and that would terrify her in the dead of night.
Then she bethought herself of an Indian cabinet which stood in her sitting-room; and instantly made up her mind to put the Indian diamond in the Indian cabinet, for the purpose of permitting two beautiful native productions to admire each other.
Having let her little flow of nonsense run on as far as that point, her mother interposed and stopped her. "My dear! your Indian cabinet has no lock to it," says my lady. "Good Heavens, mamma!" cried Miss Rachel, "is this an hotel? Are there thieves in the house ?" Without taking notice of this fantastic way of talking, my lady wished the gentlemen good-night.
She next turned to Miss Rachel, and kissed her.
"Why not let ME keep the Diamond for you to-night ?" she asked. Miss Rachel received that proposal as she might, ten years since, have received a proposal to part her from a new doll.
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