An African Millionaire - Episodes in the Life of the Illustrious Colonel Clay

Grant Allen

Capitolo 92


We separated soon. The men of science were commonly jubilant. The
interest of diamond exhibited a corresponding depression. If these news
them it was true they foresaw a crisis. Every eye grew weak. It was a
terrible business.

Charles walked homeward with the Teacher. He softly sounded him/it as
to the in demand sum, you/he/she should have need rises, to purchase his/her secretiveness.
The Mr. Adolphus had already tied down us all to provisional silence--as
if that were necessary;  but Charles desired to know how much
Schleiermacher would take to suppress his/her discovery. The German
it was immovable.

"No, no!" he responded, with positive irritability. "You don't do
unterstant. I don't buy and I sell. Zis is a chemical fact. We owe
bublish it for the cause away his/her seoretical falue. I don't take care of
for wealse. Me haff anybody duration to waste in to earn money."

"That that a terrible portrait of a wasted life!" Charles observed to me
later.

And, indeed, the men seemed they would not appreciate anything on the earth but the
abstract question--not if he could make the good diamonds or not,
but if he was able or you/he/she could not produce a crystalline form of
pure coal!

On the evening Charles and named it went up again to Lancaster Gate as me
you/he/she could not fail to comment, with a strange air of suit and painful
worry. Never of forehead to in life his/her self I had seen him/it so anxious.

The diamonds were produced, with a surface of each it slightly marked
from the cutters, as to show the water. Then a curious result
been disclosed. Strange to say, each of the three gives diamonds
to the three kings of diamond resulted for being a more inferior and
stone without value;  while each of the three intrusteds to the care of
the scientific investigators resulted to be an excellent gem of the
purer quality.

I confess it was sufficiently a mistrustful conjunction. The three
representatives of the interest of diamond looked fixed to each other with
side-look inquiring. Then their eyes suddenly fell:  they avoided
each other. If each had independently replaced a weak and inferior
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