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"How many pearls?" said Carey. "Not one, sir." "I thought not. But I say, Bob, that's a precious nasty job." "Not it, sir. I don't mind. Done worse than this." "And the oyster looks horribly messy." "It won't when it's made into soup. But I say, nice shells, aren't they?" "Beautiful," said Carey, who was examining them. "So these are to cut up for mother-o'-pearl?"
The air retains as if echoes, or fragrances, of the personalities which have but just withdrawn; it is sweetened with effluvia of Walther's youth, of Sachs's greatness of heart. Suddenly, like a bar of bilious green across a shimmering mother-o'-pearl fabric, harmonies of a very different sort catch the attention, and Beckmesser's face is seen peering in at the window.
In the interior of one of the most beautiful houses I visited in Damascus the show-room was very magnificent, upholstered in velvet and gold, and with divans inlaid with marble, mother-o'-pearl, ebony, and walnut, and there were tesselated marble floors and pavements and fountains; but en revanche, God knows where they sleep at all.
The chamber in which he stood was square in form, and more richly ornamented with shell-designs than any other portion of the grotto he had seen, and facing the east was an altar hewn out of the solid rock and studded thickly with amber, malachite and mother-o'-pearl.
Many of the polished metal mirrors of those days were adorned with precious stones and had handles of mother-o'-pearl; and silver and gold were common in the fashioning of the framework. Hair appointments, including combs, were very decorative, frequently being made of ivory, and many beautiful carved specimens are to be seen in our museums.
They were of clear, ivory white, pinkish white, pale rose, deep rose, pale yellow, or straw color, orange yellow, blue and green mixed in glossy sheen, shades of pink running into rich reds, purples and grayish pinks, making the fair, sweet mother-o'-pearl. Some were cup-shaped, having deep hollows.
Many of them were turned artistically in such a position as to show their inner sides glistening with soft tints like the shades of fine silk or satin, others glittered with the opaline sheen of mother-o'-pearl.
They make first-rate soup, and that aren't a thing to be sneezed at." "Then we shan't starve," said Carey, laughing. "Starve, sir? No. I can see plenty of good fish to be had out o' this lagoon." "But are these the oysters they gather for the mother-o'-pearl?" asked the doctor. "Them's those, sir, and it seems to me here's a fortune to be made gathering of 'em.
He admitted that the pigeons, large and white and shining like mother-o'-pearl, looked like a kind of weather-cock; but they were fat and stupid, and all their thoughts and endeavours were directed to filling themselves with food, and besides, they were tiresome things to converse with.
Without any hesitation she ordered one of the old women to pass up to her a mother-o'-pearl ornamented Smith & Wesson, which she promptly hid in her bosom. Judging by the sounds he made, that pistol was the apple of Ibrahim's old eye, but he had seen the last of it.
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