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Updated: June 28, 2025
He laughed again, enjoying the thought of the little thing who cared for Pearson "too much" and had eyes that were "that blue." "Say, I've just thought of something else. Have you bought her an engagement-ring yet?" "No, sir. In our class of life jewelry is beyond the means." "I just wondered," Mr. Temple Barholm said.
Then what mad, half-sullen, half-petulant, and wholly reckless impulse sprang into his brain! "Well, will you wear that as an engagement-ring, if I give it to you?" he asked. She looked up, startled, amused, but not displeased. "Why, really really that is a question to ask!" she exclaimed.
One of her maternal aunts made her a coming-out tea, after she left school; and she entered upon a series of dinners, dances, theatre parties, and receptions of all kinds; but the tide of fairy gold pouring through her fingers left no engagement-ring on them.
"Find it, Miss Dobson," laughed the girl. "Crawl for it. It can't have rolled far, and it's the only engagement-ring you'll get from HIM," she said, pointing to the livid face twisted painfully up at her from the lower window. "Grovel for it, Miss Dobson. Ask him to step down and help you. Oh, he can! That was all lies about his spine and ankle.
And he was able to distinguish between the two in that dim room. And I couldn't!" "Oh," said I carelessly, "I expect he noticed she wasn't wearing an engagement-ring." My wife looked at me and sighed, as over one who would spoil a romance for want of a ha'porth of sentiment.
Tom had felt his poverty keenly, and all the more so that Ann Eliza's engagement-ring, a superb solitaire, had actually been bought with her father's gift, as had their passage tickets to Europe.
Just now a flash came nearer and seemed to catch the huge diamonds in my engagement-ring, which hangs loose on my finger now. I flung it into the little china tray, where strings of pearls and a fender tiara are already reposing ready for to-morrow. I shall blaze with jewels, and Augustus will be able to tell the guests how much they all cost.
As for the engagement-ring, modern fashion prescribes a diamond solitaire, which may range in price from two hundred and fifty to two thousand dollars. The matter of presentation is a secret between the engaged pair. Evening weddings do not differ from day weddings essentially, except that the bridegroom wears evening dress.
Of all the treasures she possessed, only two valuable souvenirs remained which she had hidden from the bailiffs an onyx box and the returned engagement-ring. The box she had concealed in her pocket; and when alone at night, she drew it out and looked at its precious contents. There were all sorts of poison in it.
Afterward, when that noodle of a Daubrecq comes with his engagement-ring, not a bit of it! Nothing doing! We'll laugh in his face!... No, no, enough of empty words. I don't want promises that won't be kept: I want facts, immediate facts."
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