Nizza looked at it in astonishment, but did not offer to touch it.
"Take it!" thundered Solomon Eagle; "it is your dowry." And perceiving she hesitated to comply with the injunction, he shouted to Leonard.
"Give it her.

I have no use for gold.

May it make you and her happy!" "I know not where he can have obtained this money," observed Hodges; "but I am sure in no unlawful manner, and I therefore counsel Nizza to accept the boon.

It may be of the greatest use to her at some future time." His scruples being thus overcome, Leonard took the sack, and placed it in one of the saddle-bags.
"You can examine it at your leisure," remarked Hodges to Nizza.

"We have no more time to lose." Solomon Eagle, meanwhile, expressed his satisfaction at the apprentice's compliance by his gestures, and, waving his staff round his head, pointed towards the west of the city, as if inquiring whether that was the route they meant to take.