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I know well enough it is not worth anything," when the jeweler said: "Sir, that necklace is worth from twelve to fifteen thousand francs; but I could not buy it unless you tell me now whence it comes." The widower opened his eyes wide and remained gaping, not comprehending the merchant's meaning. Finally he stammered: "You say are you sure?"
Monroe, taking the strange bank-note from a drawer of his desk. "Well yes," was the admission, made grudgingly. "And are you not yet assured?" "Neither one way nor the other," frankly confessed the jeweler. "It was taken by Chet for a hundred-dollar bill. And it is that on one side!" "It certainly looks to be," chuckled Mr. Monroe.
The tone in which the jeweler spoke was so serious, while he rested his forehead on the tip of his forefinger in an attitude of deep meditation, that Padre Camorra responded very gravely, "Who knows, who knows?" "Since we're busy with legends and are now entering the lake," remarked Padre Sibyla, "the captain must know many "
This was not only with a view to extending my business, but I realized that at the rate I was progressing, I would soon want to establish a business of my own, and unless there was some wholesale jeweler to whom I could refer the Eastern manufacturers, I would have a hard time to get a start. When I asked the manager of the concern for an extension of credit he said I could extend it a little.
Raising his head, he saw the door open and to his great surprise appeared the sinister figure of the jeweler Simoun, who since the scene in San Diego had not come to visit either himself or Capitan Tiago. "How is the sick man?" he inquired, throwing a rapid glance about the room and fixing his attention on the pamphlets, the leaves of which were still uncut.
"Yes, have you got one?" replied the merchant, for Abdul did not look like a man who was likely to have more than one, if any. "I have a pocket full of them," said Abdul. "You have a pocket full of pebbles, more likely," said the jeweler. But when Abdul took out a handful and showed him, he was so astonished that he could hardly speak.
That house and garden are only painted. See how they shake! And the women are dressed in paste jewelry, like that our cook-maid wears to parties, and no jeweler would give a cent for them; and the fairies are poor girls, dressed up for the occasion; and the whole play is made up as they go. You see, I know all about it, father says."
Something in its appearance touched a chord in his memory; he lifted the half-opened case and saw a much faded daguerreotype portrait of himself taken in Missouri before he left in the Californian emigration. He recognized it at once as one he had given to his wife; the faded likeness was so little like his present self that he boldly examined it and asked the jeweler one or two questions.
Josephine was aware that the celebrated jeweler Foncier possessed a magnificent collection of fine pearls which had belonged, as he said, to the late Queen, Marie Antoinette. Having ordered them to be brought to her to examine them, she thought there were sufficient to make a very fine necklace. But to make the purchase 250,000 francs were required, and how to get them was the difficulty.
"Well, yes, though I don't admit I spent too much time, and I surely will claim she owed me that money. As for Miss Mason I'd prefer to have her name left out," faltered the young jeweler. "We can't always have what we want," said Thong, dryly. "Was the quarrel specially bitter?" "Not any more so than others. I had to speak a little loud, for my cousin was getting a trifle deaf."
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