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The Moonstone

CHAPTER XXI
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That result satisfied me that my view was the right one.
If your ladyship and Mr.Betteredge persist in not agreeing with me, you must be blind to what happened before you this very day.

In your hearing, I told the young lady that her leaving the house (as things were then) would put an obstacle in the way of my recovering her jewel.
You saw yourselves that she drove off in the face of that statement.

You saw yourself that, so far from forgiving Mr.Blake for having done more than all the rest of you to put the clue into my hands, she publicly insulted Mr.Blake, on the steps of her mother's house.

What do these things mean?
If Miss Verinder is not privy to the suppression of the Diamond, what do these things mean ?" This time he looked my way.

It was downright frightful to hear him piling up proof after proof against Miss Rachel, and to know, while one was longing to defend her, that there was no disputing the truth of what he said.


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