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There was much the same difference in his impression of the noticed state of his companion, whose dress was "cut down," as he believed the term to be, in respect to shoulders and bosom, in a manner quite other than Mrs. Newsome's, and who wore round her throat a broad red velvet band with an antique jewel he was rather complacently sure it was antique attached to it in front. Mrs.
Humbly and reverentially he bent over it, and kissed the great jewel sparkling like a star on the central finger. As he then raised his eyes to her face she smiled; that smile of hers, so dazzling, so sweet, and yet so cold, had sent many men to their deaths, though she knew it not. "I see very little of you, Sir Roger," she said slowly, "notwithstanding your close attendance on my lord the King.
Her daughter again burst into tears; and Peter, now almost choked with grief, pressing the sick woman to his heart, kissed her burning lips. "Father, jewel," said the daughter, "there it is, and I feard it the sign, uncle the sign! don't you see her gropin' the clothes? Oh, mother, darlin', darlin'! are we going to lose you for ever?" "Oh!
Claudius was a younger brother of Germanicus; therefore Tiberius' nephew, Caligula's uncle, and a brother-in-law to Agrippina. Mr. Baring-Gould says that somewhere deep in him was a noble nature that had never had a chance: that the soul of him was a jewel, set in the foolish lead of a most clownish personality.
The fever makes him distrustful of every one, but I know that he would see you. I am inclosing a check for the trip. It is really money that belongs to him to Alan. He gave me last year a beautiful present something far too expensive for him to give; and now that he needs the money needs to see you more than I need the jewel. I am sending it to you, begging that you will come very soon if you can.
"Not 'Bonnie Leslie, 'Jewel, 'Angel," jested Mary, thrilling at the echo of a certain low, fluttered voice, that had sounded in her own ears and would wilfully repeat, "Winsome Mary," "Little Woman," "Witch!" "No," Leslie replied, with honest frankness, "that would be speaking nonsense; and if Hector Garret thinks nonsense that is bad enough."
The archer had shot with his arrow, the bright jewel was shivered into a thousand pieces, the staircase had fled, and the priest found himself buried alive. Usually, however, though the lightning is wont to strike dead, with its basilisk glance, those who rashly enter its mysterious caverns, it is regarded rather as a benefactor than as a destroyer.
Sometimes out of the dusk all tremulous with tinted light the rainbow ray of a jewel flashed in his eyes or sometimes he caught the glint of eyes above the jewel a passing view of a fair face, a moment's encountering glance, and, maybe, a smile just as the shadows falling turned the garden's brightness to a mystery peopled with phantoms.
All the western clouds were aflare with gorgeous reflections; the long reaches of the Great Smoky range had grown densely purple; and those dim Cumberland heights that, viewed from this precipice of Chilhowee, were wont to show so softly blue in the distance, had now a variant amethystine hue, hard and translucent of effect as the jewel itself.
And his majesty said, 'Row you not further? And they replied, 'Our little steerer here stays and rows not. His majesty then said to her, 'Wherefore rowest thou not? She replied, 'It is for my jewel of new malachite which is fallen in the water. And he said to her, 'Row on, for behold I will replace it. And she answered, 'But I want my own piece back in its setting. And his majesty said, 'Haste, bring me the chief reciter Zazamankh, and they brought him.
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