she will."

"She could do that just the same if they were an heirloom."

"No, John. I think not. We could have acted much more quickly, and
have frightened her."

"If I were you, father, I'd drop the matter altogether, and let
John Eustace replace them if he pleases. We all know that he would
never be called on to do anything of the kind. It isn't our sort of
business."

"Not ten thousand pounds!" said Camperdown Senior, to whom the
magnitude of the larceny almost ennobled the otherwise mean duty
of catching the thief. Then Mr. Camperdown rose, and slowly walked
across the New Square, Lincoln's Inn, under the low archway, by the
entrance to the old court in which Lord Eldon used to sit, to the Old
Square, in which the Turtle Dove had built his legal nest on a first
floor, close to the old gateway.

Mr. Dove was a gentleman who spent a very great portion of his life
in this somewhat gloomy abode of learning. It was not now term time,
and most of his brethren were absent from London, recruiting their
strength among the Alps, or drinking in vigours for fresh campaigns
with the salt sea breezes of Kent and Sussex, or perhaps shooting
deer in Scotland, or catching fish in Connemara. But Mr. Dove was a
man of iron, who wanted no such recreation. To be absent from his
law-books and the black, littered, ink-stained old table on which he
was wont to write his opinions, was, to him, to be wretched. The only
exercise necessary to him was that of putting on his wig and going
into one of the courts that were close to his chambers;--but even
that was almost distasteful to him. He preferred sitting in his old
arm-chair, turning over his old books in search of old cases, and
producing opinions which he would be prepared to back against all the
world of Lincoln's Inn. He and Mr. Camperdown had known each other
intimately for many years, and though the rank of the two men in
their profession differed much, they were able to discuss questions
of law without any appreciation of that difference among themselves.
The one man knew much, and the other little; the one was not only
learned, but possessed also of great gifts, while the other was
simply an ordinary clear-headed man of business; but they had
sympathies in common which made them friends; they were both honest
and unwilling to sell their services to dishonest customers; and
they equally entertained a deep-rooted contempt for that portion of
mankind who thought that property c