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In shape it is a tiny, square box of silver, studded outside with eight small balas-rubies. Inside the box, which opens with a spring, is a little eyeless fish, carved from some sort of dark, shiny nut and wrapped in a shred of faded gold-cloth. That is the Bisara of Pooree, and it were better for a man to take a king cobra in his hand than to touch the Bisara of Pooree.
"The ruby necklace?" she said. "Are they balas-rubies, madame?" "Here they are." "They are beautiful magnificent. I did not know your ladyship had these stones." "What is their value?" "Two hundred thousand francs. The center one is alone worth a hundred thousand." "I thought so," said the marquise. "As for diamonds, I have them in numbers; rings, necklaces, sprigs, ear-rings, clasps.
The marquise wrote down upon her tablets the amount which the jeweler mentioned. "The ruby necklace?" she said. "Are they balas-rubies, madame?" "Here they are." "They are beautiful magnificent. I did not know that your ladyship had these stones." "What is their value?" "Two hundred thousand francs. The center one is alone worth a hundred thousand." "I thought so," said the marquise.
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