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Updated: June 17, 2025
"I thought they might have dropped a piece of money, or an ear-ring perhaps, in their hurry just something to show us what had actually been here," said Cicely, grubbing about in the loose soil. "Trust Scott and Mrs. Wilson! They're an uncommonly clever couple. You may be sure they'd take care not to leave even a sixpence behind them."
The place was in darkness; but she turned on the light, and again when she reached the hall. She must have dropped her ear-ring in the library; of that she felt sure. Servants were so careless that, if she left it, it might easily be swept up in the morning and lost for ever. That thought had caused her to search for it at once.
"Something, yes. But what?" "Isn't it plain?" Lightly she touched the lobe of her left ear. "Aren't you flattered?" He knew now what made the difference. It was that her little face was flanked by two black pearls. "Think," said she, "how deeply I must have been brooding over you since we parted!" "Is this really," he asked, pointing to the left ear-ring, "the pearl you wore to-day?" "Yes.
It was an effect that only Rembrandt could see, painted as only he could paint it. The strongest light falls upon the breastplate, the next strongest upon the helmet, and the ear-ring is there to catch another gleam. More than once Rembrandt painted armour for the sake of the effects of light. In one of the portraits of himself he wears a helmet, and he painted his brother similarly adorned.
They eat and drink out of vessels of earth, or glass, which make an agreeable appearance though formed of brittle materials: while they make their chamber-pots and close-stools of gold and silver; and that not only in their public halls, but in their private houses: of the same metals they likewise make chains and fetters for their slaves; to some of which, as a badge of infamy, they hang an ear-ring of gold, and make others wear a chain or a coronet of the same metal; and thus they take care, by all possible means, to render gold and silver of no esteem.
The entry to the house was on the left, and it was garnished as the outer gateway was, with two printed bills in French and English, announcing Furnished Apartments to let, with immediate possession. A strong cheerful peasant woman, all stocking, petticoat, white cap, and ear-ring, stood here in a dark doorway, and said with a pleasant show of teeth, 'Ice-say! Seer! Who?
They are the ishtifan or diadem, the necklace, the ear-ring, the finger-ring, the girdle, the bracelet, and the mantle-ring-clasp the seven gifts of felicity, oh Padishah, that the bridegroom giveth to the bride.
As I turned my head I descried my missing ear-ring lying in the threads of a crocheted tidy that had lain under my head. Setting down the candle, I extricated it and restored it to my ear. I then blew out the light and went quietly up to my own room. I had just closed the door and secured myself against possible intrusion when the sound of the dinner-bell broke upon my ear.
My mother told her, somewhat gravely, that she might sit down until she was wanted, and we returned to our conversation about the ear-ring. "Why!" said Sel, with a little jump, "I see your ear-ring. Miss Clara, the one with a white drop on the leaf. It's out by the well." The girl was sitting with her back to the window, her eyes, to all appearance, tightly closed.
"Selphar," said my mother, a little suspiciously, "how did you know the robbers were there?" "Robbers!" said the girl, aghast. She knew nothing of the robbers. She knew nothing of the ear-ring. She remembered nothing that had happened since she went up the garret-stairs to bed, the night before. And, as I said, the girl was as honest as the sunlight.
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