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Presently the odor began to fill him with delight and later on he found himself sitting cross-legged, like a Turk, and swallowing gulp after gulp of the amber fluid he loved so well. Taken altogether it proved to be as satisfactory a little lunch as Perk had partaken of in some time.
A bit that turns up on certain sands, here at home, for aught I know, as often as anywhere." "Which means Nazareth. We must teach you, Sir, that there are some things at home as rare as those abroad." "I am taught," he said, very low, and without looking up. "Just tell me, what is amber?" "Fossil gum." "Can you say those words and not like it?
Some of the finest specimens are still to be seen in the museum at Berne. Amber, about which all sorts of fabulous stories have passed current, is found more frequently in the depths of the sea than in those of the earth. There can be no doubt that it is the product of several conifers, or cone-bearing trees, overwhelmed by the waves.
Going home through the streets, she passed the café of the Trois Frères that looks out on the trees of the park, and that has flowers in its balconies, and pleasant windows that stand open to let the sounds of the soldiers' music enter. She saw him in one of the windows. There were amber and scarlet and black; silks and satins and velvets. There was a fan painted and jewelled.
The white, staring eye winked sardonically through a mist of flakes, was blotted out and turned up a baleful red. It seemed to mock him, but Amber nodded at it with no unfriendly feeling. It still might serve his purpose very well, if his strength held, since he had merely to keep his back to the light and the ocean beach upon his right to win to the Shampton sandbar, whether soon or late.
It was a very pretty little room, its walls not papered, but painted a soft amber colour. No pictures were on the walls. 'I like the idea of your walls, Ericson said. 'The walls are themselves the decoration. 'Yes, she said, 'that was exactly our idea let the colour be the decoration; but I don't know that I ever heard anyone discover the idea before.
An attendant was ordered to conduct him, and he had no sooner entered the court appropriated to the ladies, than the whole seraglio surrounded him, some begging for physic, some for amber, and all of them trying that great African specific, blood-letting. They were ten or twelve in number, most of them young and handsome, and wearing on their heads ornaments of gold and beads of amber.
Twelve of the soldiers sick. Went and waited on the Dooty, and presented him with five bars of amber, and two of beads, requesting his permission to go and look at the gold mines, which I understood were in the vicinity. Having obtained his permission, I hired a woman to go with me, and agreed to pay her a bar of amber if she would shew me a grain of gold.
For as much as a minute he was easily to be followed, his head and shoulders rising above the brush through which he forged purposefully, with something of the heedless haste of a man bent on keeping a pressing engagement or a sinner fleeing the wrath to come. Not once did he look back while Amber watched himself divided between amusement, annoyance, and astonishment.
There was a pretty legend among the Phoenicians that the pieces of amber were the petrified tears of maidens who had thrown themselves into the sea because of unrequited love, and each bead of amber was highly prized. It was worn as an amulet and a symbol of purity. Not for two thousand years did any one dream that within its golden heart lay hidden the secret of a new electrical civilization.
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