Dimmock was a left-handed relation of the Posen family.

Twig?
Scarcely anyone knows that.
He was made secretary and companion to Prince Aribert, just to keep him in the domestic circle.

His mother was an Irishwoman, whose misfortune was that she was too beautiful.

Twig ?' (Mr Sampson Levi always used this extraordinary word when he was in a communicative mood.) 'My belief is that Dimmock's death has something to do with the disappearance of Prince Eugen.
The only thing that passes me is this: Why should anyone want to make Prince Eugen disappear?
The poor little Prince hasn't an enemy in the world.

If he's been "copped", as they say, why has he been "copped"?
It won't do anyone any good.' 'Won't it ?' repeated Racksole, with a sudden flash.
'What do you mean ?' asked Mr Levi.
'I mean this: Suppose some other European pauper Prince was anxious to marry Princess Anna and her fortune, wouldn't that Prince have an interest in stopping this loan of yours to Prince Eugen?
Wouldn't he have an interest in causing Prince Eugen to disappear--at any rate, for a time ?' Sampson Levi thought hard for a few moments.
'Mr Theodore Racksole,' he said at length, 'I do believe you have hit on something.'.