Paris herself again in 1878-9 . THE FRENCH CROWN DIAMONDS (BY CHAM). 1 My daughter, I forbid your looking at the was a most immoral man. 220 PARIS HERSELF your mind that in a previous state of existence—ages ago per-chance—your profession was burglary. In your present happilylaw-abiding and Commandment-keeping condition you would never,of course, think of breaking into a jewellers shop and filling yourpockets with precious things which do not belong to you; but inthe previous state of existence—ages ago—you were possibly notunacquainted with the use of the jemmy and the pickl
Paris herself again in 1878-9 . THE FRENCH CROWN DIAMONDS (BY CHAM). 1 My daughter, I forbid your looking at the was a most immoral man. 220 PARIS HERSELF your mind that in a previous state of existence—ages ago per-chance—your profession was burglary. In your present happilylaw-abiding and Commandment-keeping condition you would never,of course, think of breaking into a jewellers shop and filling yourpockets with precious things which do not belong to you; but inthe previous state of existence—ages ago—you were possibly notunacquainted with the use of the jemmy and the picklock asutensils employed in forming a cheap collection of gems. Inthe Exhibition itself I hear that on the whole but few robberieshave been committed. A very large staff of sergents de ville andpolice-agents in plain clothes have constantly patrolled the build-ing, while the British department has been efficiently watchedover by Inspector Giles. We have had, to be sure, no Koh-i-noor,as we had in Hyde Park in 1851, to tempt the feloniously-minded ;and indeed of gems and precious stones generally we make scarcelyany show in the Champ de Mars; still there is an
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