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Let's take one of the smaller stones and ask him what he thinks." "Oh, yes, let's find out and as soon as we can!" cried Grace. "Isn't it just delicious!" "Delicious!" scoffed Will. "You'd think she was speaking of chocolates!" They spoke of them as diamonds, and hoped they would prove to be stones of value, and not mere imitations.
He thanked heaven to his wife often, that he had nothing to do with North American or South American mines and pastures or with South Africa and, gold and diamonds: and a wife must sometimes listen, mastering her inward comparisons. Dr. Schlesien had met and meditated on this example of the island energy. Mr.
Colored stones and diamonds, set diagonally, as a sapphire and a diamond, are also worn; but not a pearl, as, according to the German idea, "pearls are tears for a bride." The wedding ring is entirely different, being merely a plain gold ring, not very wide nor a square band, as it was a few years since, and the engagement ring is worn as a guard above the wedding ring.
"Of course a preposterous price?" "No, you only you!" "Me!" "Yes! I've never seen a girl I like more. I've limitless wealth and I'll give you everything you want a steam yacht, motors, diamonds, anything, everything, and all I ask in return is that you should consent to be engaged to me on trial say for fifteen months just to see how we get on! What pretty hands you have."
What didst thou suffer in seeing me turn pale before thee, in seeing my arms fall as though lifeless at my side! When the kiss died on my lips, and the full glance of love, that pure ray of God's light, fled from my eyes like an arrow turned by the wind! Ah! Brigitte! what diamonds trickled from thin eyes! What treasures of charity didst thou exhaust with patient hand! How pitiful thy love!
We have detectives working on half a dozen clues but so far we have accomplished nothing. We have also gone to Washington to get the secret service men interested in the case on the ground that if the diamonds are here they were smuggled in and no duty was paid. But we found the secret service men busy following up counterfeiters.
Diamonds and gold, they can have as much as they want of such rubbish; but platinum is different, and we are in no hurry to part with it. But diamonds and gold ornaments, the jewelry of the Tsars, we are ready to give to any king in Europe who fancies them, if he can give us some less ornamental but more useful locomotives instead." I asked if Kolchak had damaged the platinum mines.
"Tell her that I saw her in the church this morning; tell her that I shall always love her, and that some time before long, I hope we shall meet." Reggie, very red, and looking very happy, nodded. "And will you give her this as a wedding present?" He opened the small case she slipped into his hand, and saw a pendant in the form of a ruby heart set round with diamonds.
In the garden here, too, we are told, was first planted the esculent which better deserves to be called the Curse of Ireland than does the Nine of Diamonds to be known as the Curse of Scotland. The Irish yew must have been indigenous here, for the name of Youghal, Father Keller tells me, in Irish signifies "the wood of yew-trees."
I did not wish to do them an injustice, so I paid them yearly visits and tried to behave as they wished, much as I disliked to be dressed in fine frocks and to wear diamonds on my little head and round my thin neck. It was an odd thing that this time I found I did not dread the visit to London as much as I usually did.
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