Lucinda Roanoke's
room had not been entered, as far as they could judge. The girl had taken
the best of her own clothes, and a pair of strong boots belonging to the
cook. A superintendent of police was there before they went to bed, and a
list was made out. The superintendent was of opinion that the thing had
been done very cleverly, but also thought that the thieves had expected to
find more plunder.
"They don't care so much about banknotes, my lady, because they fetches
such a low price with them as they deal with. The three sovereigns is more
to them than all the forty pounds in notes." The superintendent had heard
of the diamond necklace, and expressed an opinion that poor Lady Eustace
was especially marked out for misfortune.
"It all comes of having such a girl as that about her," said Mrs.
Carbuncle. The superintendent, who intended to be consolatory to Lizzie,
expressed his opinion that it was very hard to know what a young woman
was.
"They looks as soft as butter, and they're as sly as foxes, and as quick,
as quick--as quick as greased lightning, my lady." Such a piece of
business as this which has just occurred will make people intimate at a
very short notice.
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