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Well, I would rather see you tried for murder, and even chained to the galleys, than married to this worthless jade!" This last word was too much for Gaston. "Then your wish shall be gratified, monsieur. I will remain here, and be arrested. I care not what becomes of me! What is life to me without the hope of Valentine? Take back these jewels: they are useless now."
Pao-ch'ai continued: In whose household is there a flute made of green jade? The fish fears lest the earth from its axis might drop. "I'll go and see that the wine is warm for you people," Li Wan smiled. But when Pao-ch'ai told Pao-ch'in to connect some lines, she caught sight of Hsiang-yuen rise to her feet and put in: What time the dragon wages war, the clouds dispel.
And in that one, another hit. Ah! if you crawl under the bed I'll whack you with the handle. Gee up, you jade! Gee up! Gee up!" A slight foam came to his lips, his yellow eyes were starting from their black orbits.
There were the diamonds in which a Meredith great-grandmother had been presented at the Court of St. James, and there were the pearls of which her own string was a small part. There were emeralds and rubies, old corals and jade not for nothing had the Admiral sailed the seas, bringing back from China and India lovely things for the woman he loved.
He said Carey does himself awfully well, has the house full of bully pictures, and the family plate, and wonderful collections things he picked up in the East gold ornaments, and jewels, and jade." "I shouldn't think," said the girl in the same hushed voice, "they would let him live so far from any neighbors with such things in the house. Suppose burglars " "Burglars!
The Celestial porcelain, as is well known, had its origin in an attempt to reproduce the exquisite shade of jade, resulting, in the Tang dynasty, in the blue glaze of the south, and the white glaze of the north. Luwuh considered the blue as the ideal colour for the tea-cup, as it lent additional greenness to the beverage, whereas the white made it look pinkish and distasteful.
This young lady was Miss Bell Mosk, whom the frequenters of The Derby Winner called 'a dashing beauty, and Mrs Pansey 'a painted jade. With her glittering ornaments, her bright blue dress, her high colour, and general air of vivacity, she glowed and twinkled in the lamp-light like some gorgeous-plumaged parrot; and her free speech and constant chatter might have been ascribed to the same bird.
His hobby has a solid basis of personal preference. He admires it. He sees another piece in a shop, and buys it; later, he buys another. He does not regard these pieces of jade as distinct from the rest of his possessions; he has no idea of collecting jade.
So I sat talking with him till late at night, somewhat vexed at a snappish answer Madam Williams did give me to herself, upon my speaking a free word to her in mirthe, calling her a mad jade. She answered, we were not so well acquainted yet.
Into the entire figure ran numerous tiny rivulets of angry crimson and orange light, angling in interwoven patterns with never a curve nor arching. Set at intervals between them were what looked like octagonal rosettes filled with slender silvery flutings, wan striations like it came to me immense chrysanthemum buds, half opened, and carved in gray jade. Above towered the gigantic vertical beam.
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