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Nina Balatka

CHAPTER IX
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There is nothing left but this one that the Jew wants." "And uncle Karil has never given that back ?" "Never." "And it should belong to Stephen Trendellsohn ?" "Yes, I suppose it should." "Who can wonder, then, that they should be anxious and inquire after it, and make a noise about it?
Will not the law make uncle Karil give it up ?" "How can the law prove that he has got it?
I know nothing about the law.

Put them all back again." Then Nina replaced the papers and locked the desk.

She had, at any rate, been absolutely and entirely successful in her diplomacy, and would be able to assure Anton Trendellsohn, of her knowledge, that that which he sought was not in her father's keeping.
On the same day she went out to sell her necklace.

She waited till it was nearly dark--till the first dusk of evening had come upon the street--and then she crossed the bridge and hurried to a jeweller's shop in the Grosser Ring which she had observed, and at which she knew such trinkets as hers were customarily purchased.

The Grosser Ring is an open space--such as we call a square--in the oldest part of the town, and in it stand the Town Hall and the Theinkirche, which may be regarded as the most special church in Prague, as there for many years were taught the doctrines of Huss, the great Reformer of Bohemia.
Here, in the Grosser Ring, there was generally a crowd of an evening, as Nina knew, and she thought that she could go in and out of the jeweller's shop without observation.


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