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Lion and the Unicorn by Richard Harding Davis
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was worth more to her than many diamonds.

But it was different with Helen, and no one could count what it
cost her to tear away her one proud possession.

"What will you give me for this?" she asked defiantly.

The girl's eyes showed greater interest. "I can give you twenty
pounds for that," she said.

"Take it, please," Helen begged, as though she feared if she
kept it a moment longer she might not be able to make the
sacrifice.

"That will be enough now," she went on, taking out her ten-pound
note. She put Lady Gower's ring back upon her finger and picked
up Philip's ring and watch with the pleasure of one who has come
into a great fortune. She turned back at the door.

"Oh," she stammered, "in case any one should inquire, you are not
to say who bought these."

"No, miss, certainly not," said the woman. Helen gave the
direction to the cabman and, closing the doors of the hansom, sat
looking down at the watch and the ring, as they lay in her lap.
The thought that they had been his most valued possessions, which
he had abandoned forever, and that they were now entirely hers,
to do with as she liked, filled her with most intense delight and
pleasure. She took up the heavy gold ring and placed it on the
little finger of her left hand; it was much too large, and she
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