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"Aqua-marina," sighed Lu, in an agony of admiration. "Dear, dear! how did you know?" Lu blushed, I saw, but I was too much absorbed with the jewels to remark it. "Oh, they are just like that ring on your hand! You don't want two rings alike," I said. "Where did you get that ring, Lu?" But Lu had no senses for anything beyond the casket.
Just before the orb finally disappeared, its slant rays streamed through some dark purple bars on the horizon's verge, and for an instant tinged the opposite distant mountains with strange supernatural hues. The Blorenge and the Sugar Loaf glowed like huge carbuncles, while the pale green light which bathed their bases gleamed faintly like a setting of aqua-marina.
Dudley, rubbing his finger over his lip while he gazed, "every one must prefer aqua-marina." "Nonsense! It's no better than glass. I'd as soon wear a set of window-panes. There's no expression in it. It isn't alive, like real gems." Mr. Dudley stared. Rose laughed. "What a vindication of amber!" he said. He was standing now, leaning against the mantel, just as he was before lunch.
And as for you, you shall wear mamma's Mechlin and that aqua-marina; and you'll look like a mer-queen just issuing from the wine-dark deeps and glittering with shining water-spheres." I never let Lu wear the point at all; she'd be ridiculous in it, so flimsy and open and unreserved; that's for me; Mechlin, with its whiter, closer, chaste web, suits her to a T.
It contained a peculiar pair of ear-rings, and a brooch of aqua-marina stones, in a setting perforated like a net. "They suit you. Will you accept such an old-fashioned ornament? Put the rings in; here Ann, fasten them." Ann glared at her in astonishment, and then at me, for the reason which had prompted so unexpected a gift. "Is it possible that I am to have them? Why do you give them to me?
If you know aqua-marina, you know something that's before every other stone in the world.
Then, too, in aqua-marina proper, the setting is kept out of sight, and you have the unalloyed stone with its sea-rims and its clearness and steady sweetness. It wasn't the stone for Louise to wear; it belongs rather to highly-nervous, excitable persons; and Lu is as calm as I, only so different!
There! it's very fanciful, but I'm always feeling the tune in aqua-marina, and trying to find it, but I shouldn't know it was a tune, if I did, I suppose. How magnificent it would be, if every atom of creation sprang up and said its one word of abracadabra, the secret of its existence, and fell silent again. Oh, dear! you'd die, you know; but what a pow-wow!
The oracle declares it suits your cousin best," he added, in a lower tone. "All the oaf knows!" I responded. "I wish you'd admire it, Mr. Dudley. Mr. Rose don't like amber, handles it like nettles." "No," said Rose, "I don't like amber." "He prefers aqua-marina," I continued. "Lu, produce yours!" For she had not heard him. "Yes," said Mr.
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