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Here we all are, eh? Let's enjoy ourselves. Wilson, old scout, bustle about and give us your imitation of a bridegroom mixing a "B. and S." for the best man. Mrs Wilson, if you'll look in at the theatre tomorrow you'll find one or two small wedding presents waiting for you. Three bouquets they'll be a bit withered, I'm afraid a bracelet, and a gold Billiken with ruby eyes.
Rarely in the experience of a lifetime have I encountered a day so absolutely bally in nearly every shape and form, but there was one thing that saved it, and that was its merry old wetness! Toodle-oo, laddie!" "Good evening, sir," said the jeweller. Lucille moved her wrist slowly round, the better to examine the new bracelet. "You really are an angel, angel!" she murmured.
The victim of such a cruel fate wonders at the mysterious Providence which dooms him to spend his most violent emotions in a fruitless combat with himself, gaining no returns for the lavishness of his soul's affection, for if God is love, love is surely mystery. Still holding the precious little bracelet in his trembling hands, Guy stood thinking and wondering.
The aversion he had at first felt for Stephane had changed to pity since the poor child had shown him the red bracelet, which he called his "thought- teacher," but pity without sympathy is a sentiment to which one yields with reluctance.
See what you wear on your wrist!" "That is a loan," said King, uncovering the bracelet. "I shall give it back to her when we meet." "See what she says when you meet!" laughed the Rangar, taking a cigarette from his jeweled case with an air and smiling as he lighted it. "There is your tent, sahib."
"Oh, as for that," he said, salaaming again in the fastidious manner of a native gentleman, "I know no other tongue than Pashtu and my own Rajasthani. My name is Kurram Khan. I ask admittance." He held up his wrist to show the gold bracelet, and high over his head the Rangar laughed like a bell. "Shabash!" he laughed. "Well done! Enter, Kurram Khan, and be welcome, thou and thy men.
Then she went away and I wrought her a bracelet and laid it aside. But when she returned and I brought her out the bracelet, she put forth her hand and I clasped the bracelet on her wrist; and I wondered at the whiteness of her hand and the beauty of her wrist, which would captivate any beholder; and I recalled what the poet saith,
'A quarter-past ten, she said, glancing at the tiny watch which she wore in a bracelet. 'Then we must be moving on. I ought to be at work at half-past. One can't work more than a couple of hours in this light. They passed out of the wood and crossed an open space where rough grass grew in patches. Mildred opened her parasol. 'You asked me just now if I ever went to England.
What its form and fashion was we can not now precisely know; but it is plain that they attached some superstitious, and perhaps idolatrous associations of sacredness to it. To swear by this bracelet was to place themselves under the most solemn obligation that they could assume.
You have heard her room described by the servants." "Ah!" said Iachimo, "but she gave me this bracelet. She took it from her arm. I see her yet. Her pretty action did outsell her gift, and yet enriched it too. She gave it me, and said she prized it once."
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