'Haven't I this moment come ?' 'Well, all I know is,' replied Miss Sally, 'that it's not to be found, and that it disappeared one day this week, when I left it on the desk.' 'Halloa!' thought Richard, 'I hope the Marchioness hasn't been at work here.' 'There was a knife too,' said Miss Sally, 'of the same pattern.

They were given to me by my father, years ago, and are both gone.

You haven't missed anything yourself, have you ?' Mr Swiveller involuntarily clapped his hands to the jacket to be quite sure that it WAS a jacket and not a skirted coat; and having satisfied himself of the safety of this, his only moveable in Bevis Marks, made answer in the negative.
'It's a very unpleasant thing, Dick,' said Miss Brass, pulling out the tin box and refreshing herself with a pinch of snuff; 'but between you and me--between friends you know, for if Sammy knew it, I should never hear the last of it--some of the office-money, too, that has been left about, has gone in the same way.

In particular, I have missed three half-crowns at three different times.' 'You don't mean that ?' cried Dick.

'Be careful what you say, old boy, for this is a serious matter.