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One morning, I will suppose, some one enters my shop, and says to me: 'Father Coppenole, there is this and there is that, the Demoiselle of Flanders wishes to save her ministers, the grand bailiff is doubling the impost on shagreen, or something else, what you will.
The Hall of Mourning must be a strange and mysterious chamber. Well," added Samuel, as he drew from his pocket a register bound in black shagreen, with a brass lock, from which he drew the key, after placing it upon the table, "here is the statement of the property in hand, which I have been ordered to bring hither, before the arrival of the heirs."
"You had best take these with you, Harry," says she; "I have no need of diamonds any more." There was not the least token of emotion in her quiet low voice. She held out the black shagreen case with her fair arm, that did not shake in the least. Esmond saw she wore a black velvet bracelet on it, with my Lord Duke's picture in enamel; he had given it her but three days before he fell.
A fashionable jeweller made a fortune by the sale of mourning snuff-boxes, whereon the portrait of the young Queen, in a black frame of shagreen, gave rise to the pun: "Consolation in chagrin." All the fashions, and every article of dress, received names expressing the spirit of the moment.
The silver rims alone will sell for double money. 'A fig for the silver rims, cried my wife, in a passion: 'I dare swear they won't sell for above half the money at the rate of broken silver, five shillings an ounce. 'You need be under no uneasiness, cried I, 'about selling the rims; for they are not worth six-pence, for I perceive they are only copper varnished over. 'What, cried my wife, 'not silver, the rims not silver! 'No, cried I, 'no more silver than your saucepan, 'And so, returned she, 'we have parted with the Colt, and have only got a groce of green spectacles, with copper rims and shagreen cases!
This appendage was entirely without hair, of a dark colour, and looking as though it was covered with the well-known substance shagreen. It was about a foot in length, several inches broad and thick, and not at all unlike a cricket bat except that it appeared heavier and more oval-shaped at the end.
"It is not shagreen at all!" the chemist cried. "We will treat this unknown mystery as a mineral, and try its mettle by dropping it in a crucible where I have at this moment some red potash." Japhet went out, and returned almost immediately. "Allow me to cut away a bit of this strange substance, sir," he said to Raphael; "it is so extraordinary "
Whether he knew the individual in question or not, the threat was efficient; he trembled and hesitated, and finally drew the identical shagreen case from his bosom. "I but jested," he said. "Monsieur will witness that I relinquish it with reluctance." "I will witness that you receive stolen goods!" I cried, in wrath. He placed it in my hands.
It was combined with sweet marjoram. Lavender water was apparently a great favorite for importation, and we find notices of lavender bottles with shagreen cases.
Diana rose, and without pronouncing a single word, took the duke's arm, which he offered her. Remy gazed after them, particularly after the prince, whom the air seemed completely to revive. As she walked along, Diana wiped the small blade of her knife on a handkerchief embroidered with gold, and restored it to its shagreen sheath.
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