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The pawnbroker himself appeared looked at the pearls looked at the veiled lady and answered as the jeweler had answered, but less civilly. "I'm not going to get myself into a scrape," said the pawnbroker; "I must have a good reference." Madame Fontaine was not a woman easily discouraged.
The two boys exchanged a quick glance. They felt that they were on the brink of a discovery. "Did he give you a five-dollar bill in payment?" asked Ben Platt. "Yes," answered the jeweler, in surprise. "Could you identify that bill?" "What are you driving at, boys?" asked Mr. Washburn, keenly. "I will explain to you if you will answer my questions first." "Yes, I could identify the bill."
Oh, you ought to hear him tell it! Well she got him up on her horse and got him home, and her and her mother nursed him back to health. And since that time Bob ain't never felt the same about the desert. You couldn't drive him away now. "When he was well enough to travel, he went to 'Frisco and ordered a jeweler there to get him the handsomest string of matched emeralds that money could buy.
Rodaine smiled again in his crooked fashion. Then he pushed the clawlike hands of the excited jeweler away from his lapels. "That's your own fault, Sam," he announced curtly. "If he 's at the bottom of the shaft, your diamond 's there too. All I know about it is that I was coming down from the Silver Queen when I saw this fellow go into the tunnel of the Blue Poppy.
Rohan's smuggling operations. He is disgraced. The Countess Lamotte. The queen's jewelry. Boehmer, the crown jeweler. The diamond ear-rings. Change in the queen's life. The diamond necklace. The queen inspects the necklace. Answer of their majesties. Boehmer's embarrassment. His interview with the queen. The queen's remarks. Boehmer's confusion. Alleged disposal of the necklace.
Tell me their value, M. Faucheux." The jeweler took his magnifying-glass and scales, weighed and inspected them, and silently made his calculations. "These stones," he said, "must have cost your ladyship an income of forty thousand francs." "You value them at eight hundred thousand francs?" "Nearly so." "It is about what I imagined but the settings are not included?"
Ibrahim immediately informed the Arab, who at once consented to perform the task, and then the pious man hastened home to his wife and children with the good news and the money, which made him rich for the rest of his days. To the Arab the jeweler said, "Thou wilt regain thy liberty if thou wilt succeed in thy undertaking. Begin at once. I will forthwith engage the workmen."
Truly I have scorned myself for a passion for a few yards of lace, velvet, and fine lawn, and the hairdresser's feats of skill; a love of wax-lights, a carriage and a title, a heraldic coronet painted on window panes, or engraved by a jeweler; in short, a liking for all that is adventitious and least woman in woman. I have scorned and reasoned with myself, but all in vain.
To Placido every language spoken in the Philippines by Europeans, when not Spanish, had to be English, and besides, he caught the name Hongkong. If only the jeweler would recommend him to that foreigner, who must be setting out for Hongkong! Placido paused.
He is in a bad way, temporarily, and can scarcely afford even the bare necessities of life. It is only with my help, in fact, that he maintains its luxuries. Your money shall go to him, and with every dollar of it that he squanders, there shall arise an earnest orison to you." The jeweler was delighted. "Good!" he cried. "I detest the deserving poor as heartily as you do.
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