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The top was one round, shining ruby, and eight inches of the handle below it were studded with rough turquoises close together, giving a most satisfactory grip. Below them was a rim of jade with a flower-pattern running round it only the leaves were emeralds, and the blossoms were rubies sunk in the cool, green stone.
Madame's smile expanded. She looked the article over, picked the seed-pearls and lace with her little skinny hands, turned out the pockets, and inspected the flower-pattern of the silk. Gougeon held the glittering soleil fast in his hands. He could not keep his scowling eyes off it. Hache took up the bottle from the floor, and poured some wine into the chalice, whence he drank it off.
"To tell the truth," said Marianne, "I never did like the pattern exactly; as to uniformity of tint, it might match with anything, for there's every color of the rainbow in it." "You see, papa, it's a gorgeous flower-pattern," said Jenny. "Well, Marianne, how many yards of this wonderfully cheap carpet do you want?" "We want sixty yards for both rooms," said Jenny, always primed with statistics.
He was in dove-colored cloth, his coat very richly laced with gold, his waistcoat of white brocade with jeweled buttons, the flower-pattern outlined in finest gold thread descended midway to his knees, whilst the ruffles at his wrists and the Steinkirk at his throat were of the finest point.
Soon they were deep in its shadows, pushing along the edge of a muskeg which they skirted carefully in order not to be hampered by its treacherous boggy footing. Jessie wore a caribou-skin capote with the fur on as a protection against the cold wind. Her moccasins were of smoked moose-skin decorated with the flower-pattern bead embroidery so much in use among the French half-breeds of the North.
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