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His mother had been so splendid about the family jewels, insisting upon handing them over, and even in the short time one or two pieces had been reset, the better to please the presumably modern taste of the new bride of the Tancreds. These, and the wonderful pearls, her uncle's gift, were waiting for her, up in her sitting-room.
From within there scintillated back the gleam of diamonds a handful of pendants, brooches, ear-rings lay there disclosed, and, too, a string of pearls. Ten thousand dollars! It was a modest figure! He reached his hand inside the box and on the instant snatched it back, and thrust the box swiftly into his pocket. The flashlight was out. The room was in darkness.
Pearls are deemed most appropriate for the young and unmarried. Let your jewellery be always the best of its kind. Nothing is so vulgar, either in youth or age, as the use of false ornaments. There is as much propriety to be observed in the wearing of jewellery as in the wearing of dresses.
If she spoke truth, then indeed vengeance was his! But "What proof have I?" he asked her. "Proof? Have men absolutely NO intuition? If you need proof, produce it. Where are my ear-rings?" "Your ear-rings? Why?" Impatiently she pointed to two white pearls that fastened the front of her blouse. "These are your studs. It was from them I had the great first hint this morning."
Poor Richard! how could I tell him that I had not heard understandingly one sentence that he uttered? or how could I explain the cause of my mental distraction? He had cast his pearls to the wind; his diamonds to the sand. Mrs. Linwood was a guest of the president, who was an intimate and valued friend.
But she did not raise her head, nor care to know who called. The steps came quite close; and the touch of a cold, wet hand fell on her own. Then she looked up, and saw a strange little girl standing by her, who smiled, showing teeth like little pearls, and said, in the breezy voice: "You wanted me to play with you, so I came."
The travelling dress and bonnet were waiting still on the bed; the bridal wreath and veil lay on the floor; and so did half the necklace, and the rest of the pearls all about the floor; and Julia, with all her hair loose and hanging below her waist, lay faintly quivering in her mother's arms. Edward stood and looked, and groaned. Mrs. Dodd whispered to him over Julia: "Not a tear! not a tear!"
Octavia said it was by far the prettiest débutante frock she had ever seen; and when I was dressed she sent for me to her room, and Tom was there too, and she took out of a duck of a white satin case a lovely string of pearls and put it round my throat, and said it was their present to me for my first ball! Wasn't it angelic of them?
These confidences generally end thus: "It was folly to do the thing!" Sometimes it is right so to judge; for it is always a mistake to cast pearls before swine; but how many lives there are whose sole acts of real beauty are these very ones of which the doers repent because of men's ingratitude! Our wish for humanity is that the number of these foolish deeds may go on increasing.
"After all," Anne had said to Marilla once, "I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string."
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