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| 23 | 297 | View more quotes about certainly">Certainly it would be embarrassing, if not absolutely dangerous, to have the substitution discovered during, or at the end of, one's own watch". |
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| 23 | 294 | "If you were in the guard, and you discovered that the stone was fraudulent, surely you would fear either that the stone had been stolen in your watch, or would be thought to have been stolen in your watch". |
| 23 | 295 | "Yes!" I said. |
| 23 | 296 | "Accordingly," said Boots, "it seems to me more likely that the guards would manage to overlook the matter, and turn over the stone to the next watch, as though nothing were amiss, thus letting the next watch, or the next, and so on, worry about the matter. |
| 23 | 297 | Certainly it would be embarrassing, if not absolutely dangerous, to have the substitution discovered during, or at the end of, one's own watch". |
| 23 | 298 | "You are a clever fellow, Boots," I said. |
| 23 | 299 | "Also, the guards are mostly fellows of Ar," said Boots. |
| 23 | 300 | "Thus I do not think they would take the same offence or manifest the same zeal in these matters as might be expected of Cosians". |