This trinket--gold you say ?" "Try it, you know better than I." Dr.Mountchance took the brooch into the inner room, weighed it, tested the metal and returned to the shop.
"I can give you no more than the simple value of the gold.

'Tis not pure--a crown should content ye." "Well, it doesn't.

Do you take me for a cutpurse?
I'm not that sort." "How do I know?
You use thieves' jargon.

Where did you pick it up ?" Lavinia gave one of her rippling laughs.
"That's my business and not yours.

I tell you it's honestly come by and I want a guinea for it.