I never heard of so fine a one.

I have no very large brilliants--there were no very large ones in the market--but my average is good.

Pretty toys, are they not ?" He picked up a double handful of emeralds from a drawer, and then let them trickle slowly back into the heap.
"Good heavens!" cried Robert, as he gazed from case to case.

"It is an immense fortune in itself.

Surely a hundred thousand pounds would hardly buy so splendid a collection." "I don't think that you would do for a valuer of precious stones," said Raffles Haw, laughing.