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Lord Rutland, whose heart was like twenty-two carat gold, soft, pure, and precious, kissed Dorothy's hand when she was about to leave, and said: "Dear lady, grieve not for our sake. I can easily see that more pain has come to you than to us. I thank you for the great fearless love you bear my son. It has brought him trouble, but it is worth its cost.
Clymer Ketchum, of 24 Carat Place, containing many interesting remarks and inquiries, some of the latter relating to Madam Delacoste's institution for the education of young ladies. While this was going on at Oxbow Village, Myrtle was establishing herself at the rather fashionable school to which Mr. Gridley had recommended her.
In the time of Dutens the price of small stones of the first quality was one louis the carat; one and a half carats, five louis; two carats, ten louis; and beyond this weight no rule of value could be established. In De Boot's day emeralds were so plenty as to be worth only a quarter as much as the diamond.
"No, by gough!" said Pete. "The child is eighteen carat goold for the mother's sake, but the mother is di'monds for sake of the child. If I lost that little one, Kitty, it would be like losing the half of you." "Losing, indeed!" said Nancy. "Who's talking about losing? Does she look like it, bless her lil heart!" "Take her into the kitchen, Nancy," said Kate.
To this flattery Charles made no answer, but continued looking for the passage he wanted in his book. Whilst he was turning over the leaves, a gentleman, a friend of Mrs. Howard, who had promised her to meet Mr. Carat, came in.
There are now some five hundred more of these disks in existence roughly a billion dollars' worth so you see I am prepared to hold you to my proposition that you buy one hundred million dollars' worth of them at one-half the carat price you now pay in the open market." Mr. Latham passed one hand across a brow bedewed with perspiration, and stared helplessly at the German.
"My dearest aunt," cried he, stopping her hand as she was giving her diamond ear-rings to Mr. Carat "stay, my dearest aunt, one instant, till I have seen whether this is a good day for selling diamonds." "O my dear young gentleman, no day in de Jewish calendar more proper for de purchase," said the Jew. "For the purchase! yes," said Charles; "but for the sale?"
Not long after the tableau performance had made Myrtle Hazard's name famous in the school and among the friends of the scholars, she received the very flattering attention of a call from Mrs. Clymer Ketchum, of 24 Carat Place. This was in consequence of a suggestion from Mr. Livingston Jenkins, a particular friend of the family.
Carat was a Jew, and, though extremely cunning, profoundly ignorant. "Dat king wash very grand fool, beg his majesty's pardon," said the Jew, with a shrewd smile; "but kings know better nowadays. Heaven bless dere majesties." Charles had a great mind to vindicate the philosophic fame of Francis the First, but a new idea suddenly started into his head.
Measures of weight again had a like derivation. Seeds seem commonly to have supplied the unit. The original of the carat used for weighing in India is a small bean. Our own systems, both troy and avoirdupois, are derived primarily from wheat-corns. Our smallest weight, the grain, is a grain of wheat. This is not a speculation; it is an historically registered fact.
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