A large diamond rolled and fell upon the floor.

I picked it up and put it back among the confused blaze of precious stones, too much astonished for a moment to speak.
"Beautiful! aren't they ?" the old man chuckled, passing his wasted hands over them.

"You won't match that necklace in any jeweller's in England.
I tore it off an old she-devil of a Rhanee's neck after the Mutiny, and got a bite in the arm for my trouble.

But she'll tell no tales.

He! he! he! I don't mind saying now how I got them.