I made a villainous bad bargain, it seems.

The other jewels I have disposed of in London I have got far better price for.
"Now, Paul, why look you so troubled and wan?
Have you yet another lecture in store for your luckless comrade ?" "O Edward, Edward," cried Paul in anxious tones, "is it really so?
Have you been mad enough to sell jewels which may be known and traced?
Did I not tell you from the very first that I had money enough for both?
You should not have done it.

And why, if done it must be, did you not tell me, and let me do the trafficking ?" Edward smiled as he laid his hand upon his comrade's shoulder.
"Good Paul, did you think that I would trade upon your love, to filch from you the remains of that poor fortune which is all you have left of the world's goods?
I knew how readily your all would have been laid at my feet; but it was not for me to accept the sacrifice when I had means of raising money myself.

And what danger can there be?
My mother's jewels can scarce be known here.

I fear your courage is but a sorry thing, you are so prone to idle fears and gloomy portents." "Heaven grant I may be deceived; But the pearl clasp of which you speak--tell me what it was like." "Why, a fine pearl set in a clasp of chased gold with an eagle in relief, the claws forming the catch of the clasp.