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e of myentreaties! And now, of course, she sits weeping for the loss of this treasurewhich has been in my family for hundreds of years. He was a poor,crippled sailor who had been denied a pension. And he seemed honest, did he? Honest? No, not particularly. Can you not see? exclaimed Flora.

Wait! he cried. He wants to speak to you, sir. He spread wide his hands in a gesture ofsurprized delight and began to speak Latin very rapidly. He opened it at a place he had markedwith a folded letter and placed it upon a little table so that it would be to handif he needed to consult it.