That would destroy something which I could never recover.

We must pretend we have found it in the long gallery; there is a recess in the paneling which no one knows of but I, and there we can put it and find it again.

It will be quite safe.

Shall we leave it there, Cheiron, until we come back from abroad?
How much do you think it is worth ?" "Anything up to fifty thousand pounds perhaps to a collector," the Professor said, "since it is an original and unique.

Look at the splendid rubies and emeralds and these two big diamonds at the top, and there is so little of Benvenuto's work left that is authentic." "That is an unusual sum of money, is it not ?" Halcyone asked.