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Now the holder of the pitcher stood up and the guru drew upon it four red lines and dropped through its shattered mouth a woman's bracelet of gold lacquer beads. Then the pitcher was placed upon the Kali shrine; raw sugar was inclosed in a cloth and tied to a branch of the pipal.
"Good-night," said that individual. "I dread formal dinners usually, but this one has been the pleasantest of my life." "That's very nice. And thank you, Peter, for the bracelet, and the flowers, and the compliment. They were all lovely. Would you like a rose?" Would he? He said nothing, but he looked enough to get it. "Can't we put you down?" said a man at the door.
The only shell was a fragment of a bracelet made from a Pectunculus, a Pacific coast mollusk highly esteemed in ancient times among prehistoric Pueblos. The majority of the wooden objects found showed marks of fire, which were especially evident on the ends of the roof and floor beams projecting from the walls.
I sort of feel that if I let these men slip me now I'll never be able to clear myself of the charge of stealing Mace's jewelry." Frank was so impressed with these ideas that he trailed on after the two men. He did not know that it would do much good, but that bracelet was a kind of a lodestone, and he felt that he would give a good deal to get it into his possession.
One is, that I wished to see thee, to know if indeed thou wert as beautiful as I; another is, that I had a thing to give thee, and before I tell thee my third reason, thou shalt have the gift." She fumbled in the tawny folds of the tiger-skin on which she lay, and presently held out a bracelet, made of flexible squares of gold, like scales, jewelled with different stones.
The paper had reported a "levee ordered by the queen", describing the gowns and jewels worn by the ladies. I had little jewelry a diamond ring, which Tom gave me before we were married, a bracelet, two brooches, and a string of gold beads, which were fashionable in America. I put them all on with my best bib and tucker.
He took it in his hand and turned it over, and says, `It must have been dropped by one of the ladies as dined here yesterday; you'd better give it to her ladyship. `Of course I shall, says the other; `only there's no harm looking at it. Ain't it a love of a bracelet, Jane?
Neither Julia nor Mary had ever seen him like that before. Julia was unaffectedly distressed. "Oh, Mary, why did I ever lend it to you?" Now Mary knew very well where the bracelet was, but she was ashamed to say; she stammered and said, "You know, dear, it is too small, much too small, and my arm is bigger than yours." "There!" said Julia; "you have broken the clasp!"
She was glad to own the bracelet, and enchanted with the effect it produced on her slim wrist; yet, even while admiring it, and rejoicing that it was hers, she had already transmuted it into specie, and reckoned just how far it would go toward the paying of domestic necessities. For whatever came to her now interested her only as something more to be offered up to Nick.
"The bracelet was the prize for the Queen of Beauty which was given to me before all the high-born ladies of England by Sir Nele Loring a month before our marriage the Queen of Beauty, Nigel I, old and twisted, as you see me. Five strong men went down before his lance ere he won that trinket for me. And now in my last years " "Nay, dear and honored lady, we will not part with it."
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