"I think you had better not."
"And you think that she could claim them--as paraphernalia?"
"That question has hardly been put to me, though I allowed myself to
wander into it. But for my intimacy with you, I should hardly have
ventured to stray so far."
"I need hardly say how much obliged we are. But we will submit one or two
other cases to you."
"I am inclined to think the court would not allow them to her as
paraphernalia, seeing that their value is excessive as compared with her
income and degree; but if it did, it would do so in a fashion that would
guard them from alienation."
"She would sell them--under the rose."
"Then she would be guilty of stealing them, which she would hardly
attempt, even if not restrained by honesty, knowing, as she would know,
that the greatness of the value would almost assuredly lead to detection.
The same feeling would prevent buyers from purchasing."
"She says, you know, that they were given to her, absolutely."
"I should like to know the circumstances."
"Yes; of course."
"But I should be disposed to think that in equity no allegation by the
receiver of such a gift, unsubstantiated either by evidence or by deed,
would be allowed to stand.
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