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That's where I was wrong. I'm glad of all this now and I take back what I said. I've been a twenty-two carat, pink-eyed, black-striped wild ass of the desert, though not halfway as big a fool as Curly. It was him that got us all in wrong." Old Man Wisner he stands up too; and he makes his confession that's good for his soul.
"How much have you in your sack?" asked Fatia Negra. "A hundredweight and eighty pounds." "Now we'll see into how much pure gold it will work out." "The dross mixed with it is only a few pounds in weight." "Of what quality is it?" "Well, they purify it very incompletely you know. It is only two-and-twenty carat gold." "It doesn't matter: we will coin Prussian ducats out of it."
After Lord Rawson and Holloway had enjoyed the pleasures of driving the new horses, tandem, in a dog-cart, and had conversed about dogs and horses till they had nothing left to say to each other, his lordship proposed stepping in to Mr. Carat, the jeweller's shop, to look at some new watches: his lordship said he was tired of his own, for he had had it six months. Mr.
It is of beautiful color; it can be hammered so thin that the light will shine through it; few acids affect it, and the oxygen which eats away iron does not harm it. Pure gold is spoken of as being "twenty-four carats fine," from carat, an old weight equal to one twenty-fourth of an ounce troy.
A few yards broad of sand, and then impenetrable jungle, among which we could see, below, the curved yellow stems of the coconuts; and higher up the straight gray stems and broad fan-leaves of Carat palms; which I regret to say we did not reach. Oh for a boat to get into that paradise!
You sha'n't get the better of me, my boy." Each signed in the presence of two waiters, neither of whom knew the nature of the instruments. "Troy weight," said the General magnanimously. "She is a jewel, you know." "Certainly. It's stipulated in the contract twenty-four carat gold. You said pure, you remember. You may have noticed that I take her at the prevailing market price of gold.
I've no notion of being a humble friend; but it does not signify being in a passion about it now," continued Holloway. "What I want you, Howard, to do for me is, just to think; for I can't think at present, I'm in such a hurry, with all these things coming across me at once. What can I do to find money for the stage-coachman and for Mr. Carat? Why both together come to fifteen guineas.
You stick to her, Joe, and you'll wear diamon's.... And that reminds me! I wish she'd let me wear mine, but she won't. She says they're vulgar for an innocent country girl like her cousin, Agnes Lynch. Ain't that fierce?... How can anything be vulgar that's worth a hundred and fifty a carat?"
Just fancy, these brilliant brooches adorned with gems of purest ray serene that is, to the naked, unexpert eye well-fashioned in the matter of workmanship, and looking of, at least, eighteen carat gold, and yet they could be purchased at the rate of from fifteen to eighteen pence each. What, however, staggered me still more was to find that there was a lower deep still in the matter of price.
It is now four cents a carat. Twenty-four carats in a pennyweight. That makes ninety-six cents per pennyweight. Twenty pennyweight in an ounce, and there we have nineteen dollars and twenty cents per ounce. We'll we'll weigh her in by ounces." "That's reasonable. The price of gold isn't likely to fluctuate much."
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