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"The day before I sailed on my next voyage, I saw a beautiful diamond ring on Annie's finger. "'Annie, I asked, sorrowfully, 'whose ring is that? "'Why, mine, of course, she replied; 'have you never seen it before? "'You must have plenty of money to be able to buy such valuable jewelry as that, I said.
When Captain Dix came around, he was so overjoyed that he set up the wine and had a hearty laugh over it. I gave the fellow $50 and paid his passage back to St. Louis, while his jewelry I gave to a lame fellow that I knew in New Orleans, and it was a start in life for him.
Her room was a study in the foibles of an eager and ambitious mind. It was full of clothes, beautiful things for all occasions jewelry which she had small opportunity to wear shoes, stockings, lingerie, laces. In a crude way she had made a study of perfumes and cosmetics, though she needed the latter not at all, and these were present in abundance.
Plate, linen, dresses, Parian ware, books, furs, and jewelry were packed, as securely as the time allowed. A carriage and a baggage-wagon were ordered, and in an incredibly short period they were ready to start. "We have forgotten Charles," said Mr. Sandford. "True enough," said Marcia. "Go and call him; he is too handsome to be spared from our party just now. Tell him to bring his clothes."
He was still more surprised and disappointed to find that Lynch's future prospects in the jewelry business were so bright that it would take a considerably larger salary to entice him away.
Why run the risks to gain what after all will only be a surplus? We can't possibly spend it." Her husband's eyes flashed. The lines about his mouth tightened as he retorted: "One never has enough! You women don't understand. As long as you have all the amusement you crave, all the frocks you want, all the jewelry you covet, you think that is all there is to life."
Ditson will represent me." Roland Ditson pressed forward. He was a loud-voiced youth who wore loud clothes and sported a large amount of jewelry. "Name your second, Merriwell," he said in an authoritative way. "We want to settle this matter as soon as possible." Frank named Harry, and the seconds conferred together. Merriwell sat down and coolly awaited the result, with his hands in his pockets.
Look at her velvet and silk dresses, adorned with gold and silver embroidery; look at her diamonds, her other precious stones and jewelry. Do you know still, Marianne Meier, how often, in the days of your childhood and early youth, you have longed, with scalding tears, for all those things?
'I cannot say that I do. Have you so many dresses then? 'Yes; would you like to see them? Wait. Down went the little gown trailing along the floor, and away she flew, coming back with her arms full, silks, muslins, laces, and even jewelry. 'Are they not beautiful? she asked, ranging her splendor over the chairs. 'They are indeed, said Waring, examining the garments with curious eyes.
It is said that once a commander of the fort was wicked enough to turn against his own people and that he incited the Indians to rise against the settlers. After they had taken refuge in the fort he got them to put all their gold and jewelry into his strong box which was a stout oak chest, and then he planned to get away with it." "The piker!" cried Tom. "I think he should have been shot."
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