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Updated: June 28, 2025
Each and every detail was conscientiously considered and enlarged upon, from the buttons on Lord Blandamer's boots to the engagement-ring on Anastasia's finger; and Miss Joliffe was never tired of explaining that this last had an emerald "A very large emerald, my dear, surrounded by diamonds, green and white being the colours of his lordship's shield, what they call the nebuly coat, you know."
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.
See," she continued, and in the dull lamp-light she showed him her ungloved hand, with the engagement-ring in its former place "I have put on the ring again. Of course, you are hurt and offended; but you are more forgiving than a woman a man should be.
You stipulate for the gift of an engagement-ring, for which nobody has yet asked you." "I know still another way out for a compromise, but that is really the last one. Do you fully understand, my young lady from Aragon? It is the last way out, which a man, also from Aragon, begs leave to explain to you."
He straightened her fingers one by one, and took from her palm the engagement-ring he had given her. Instantly he looked up, doubt and relief sweeping his face. "Am I to understand that you terminate our engagement?" She nodded. "May I ask why?" "I couldn't bring myself to it, Waring. I honestly tried, but I couldn't do it." "When did you find this out?"
What a perfect taste had combined that dark, brocaded vest with the dull, rough cloth of the suit and she dressed her hair so well! She had a beautiful band of pearls on one finger: was it an engagement-ring? No, that would be a solitaire. And all this time she called names from the interminable list, and mechanically corrected the mistakes of their owners.
Let no one say this was a heathenish jest; on the contrary, it was a Christian one. Athalie said to Timéa: "Here, see, the captain has sent you an engagement-ring; but you must not put it on your finger as long as you are a heretic. You must first become a Christian. Will you be baptized?" Timéa crossed her hands on her breast and bowed her head. "Then you shall be baptized first.
As Clytie says, it is the most satisfactory way in the long run, and the long run is what I have in mind." Abner flushed. "I can promise you that, I think." "You must." "I do." "We will dismiss the new theory." "If you demand it." The idea of limited matrimonial partnership therefore passed away. Then there loomed up the question of an engagement-ring.
She wished to bring the talk back to marriage again, in order to hear Aunt Charlotte's views, but she did not know how to do this. "Let me look at your engagement-ring, Aunt Charlotte," she said, noticing her own. She took the cluster of green stones and turned it round and round, but she did not know what to say next.
"Yes," he answered her. "You must choose steerage or me!" "Then, Neil," she continued, taking off her engagement-ring and putting it into his hand, "I am afraid it must be steerage. There is your ring; it is all ended between us. And it is better that it is so. I have thought for some time that we could not be happy together with our dissimilar tastes.
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