I do not wish to dwell upon their value.
Money means, naturally, little to you, and when I tell you that a firm in London offered me sixty thousand pounds for them for an American client, I only mention it so that you may understand that they are likely to be appreciated in the country to which you are going." She clasped his hands.
"Father," she cried, "you are too good to me! It is all too wonderful.

I shall be afraid to wear them." Lord Ashleigh smiled reassuringly.
"My dear," he said, "you will be quite safe.

I should advise you to keep them, as a rule, in the strong box which you will doubtless find in the hotel to which you are going.

But for all ordinary occasions you need feel, I am convinced, no apprehension.

You can understand now, I dare say, another reason why I am sending Macdougal with you as well as Lenora." Ella, impelled by some curious impulse which she could not quite understand, glanced quickly around to where the man-servant was standing.
For once she had caught him unawares.