NOTE VI.

Page 227.

"King of the Valley of Diamonds."

ISABEL interrupted the Lecturer here, and was briefly bid to hold

her tongue; which gave rise to some talk, apart, afterwards,

between L. and Sibyl, of which a word or two may be perhaps

advisably set down.

SIBYL. We shall spoil Isabel, certainly, if it don't mind: I was

glad you stopped her, and yet sorry, for she wanted so much to ask

about the Valley of Diamonds again, and she has worked so hard at

it, and made it nearly all out by herself. She recollected

Elisha's throwing in the meal, which nobody else did.

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