Speak, Margaret, and speak fearlessly."
But Margaret was still silent, only in the silence Clement Austin heard
a low, sobbing sound.
"Margaret darling, you are crying. Ah! I know now that you love me, and
I will not leave this room except as your plighted husband."
"Heaven help me!" murmured Joseph Wilmot's daughter; "Heaven lead me
right! for I do love you, Clement, with all my heart"
CHAPTER XXVIII.
BUYING DIAMONDS.
Mr. Dunbar did not waste much time before he began the grand business
which had brought him to London--that is to say, the purchase of such a
collection of diamonds as compose a necklace second only to that which
brought poor hoodwinked Cardinal de Rohan and the unlucky daughter of
the Caesars into such a morass of trouble and slander.
Early upon the morning after his visit to the bank, Mr. Dunbar went out
very plainly dressed, and hailed the first empty cab that he saw in
Piccadilly.
He ordered the cabman to drive straight to a street leading out of
Holborn, a very quiet-looking street, where you could buy diamonds
enough to set up all the jewellers in the Palais Royale and the Rue de
la Paix, and where, if you were so whimsical as to wish to transform a
service of plate into "white soup" at a moment's notice, you might
indulge your fancy in establishments of unblemished respectability.
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