That meant that he would obey to the extent of procuring for her the portrait of her lover; but that he did not choose to betray his master, even though his master was a murderer." "But if so, where was the master ?" said the first speaker.

"Is it likely that he would have neglected to conceal the body during all these hours ?" "Certainly.

Nothing more likely, if he were a man of the world, and knew how to play his game out boldly to the end.

Have we not been told that it was the last night of the Carnival, and what better could he do, to avert suspicion, than show himself at as many balls as he could visit in the course of the evening?
But really, this ring is magnificent!" "Superb.

The ruby alone must be worth a thousand francs." "To say nothing of the diamonds, and the setting," observed the next to whom it was handed.
At length, after having gone nearly the round of the table, the ring came to a little dark, sagacious-looking man, just one seat beyond Dalrymple's, who peered at it suspiciously on every side, breathed upon it, rubbed it bright again upon his coat-sleeve, and, finally, held the stones up sideways between his eyes and the light.
"Bah!" said he, sending it on with a contemptuous fillip of the forefinger and thumb.