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The elder's mail was heavy, letters from London, from New York, from Philadelphia, one from his overseer at Greenwood, others from clients, colleagues, and strangers, all the varied correspondence of the lawyer, the planter, and the man of the world. Fairfax Cary's letters were fewer in number, but one was gilt-edged, curiously folded, and superscribed in a strong and delicate hand.
Dale's mortgage had been paid off and her two thousand pounds invested in gilt-edged securities, while Dale hoped very shortly to discharge the remainder of his obligation to Mr. Bates. They were, however, as economical as ever in their own way of life, although they permitted themselves some license in the generosity they had begun to practise with regard to their less fortunate neighbors.
As a private I could have done anything that was asked of me, but the thought of doing such work, while all the boys were calling me "Lieutenant," was too much. I never was so crushed in my life. How glad I was that I did not buy that gilt-edged saber of the chaplain.
He would be content with a moderate amount, wisely invested in gilt-edged bonds. And then he would bid the Street good-by forever. Force of long business custom and the indefinable fear of new ventures for a time fought successfully his increasing ticker-fever.
He should not be confounded with those parlour pacifists covered with official decorations and grand cordons of international orders, for whom peace is a gilt-edged investment in quiet times.
These sales were made at the farm, and at low prices, for I was afraid to send such stuff to market lest some one should find out whence it came. The Four Oaks brand was to stand for perfection in the future, and I was not willing to handicap it in the least. Top prices for gilt-edged produce is what intensive farming means; and if there is money in land, it will be found close to this line.
The Forum gilt-edged marble, tinted statuary, a mosaic pavement like a rich-hued carpet from the looms of Babylon began to overflow with leisured men of business. Their slaves did all the worrying. The money-changers' clerks sat by the bags of coin, with scales and shovel and the tables of exchange.
Some large amethysts in fine gold settings she wore, one great yellow pearl, a mourning-ring of hair in a circlet of pearls for tears, and some diamond bands in silver, which gave out cold white lights only as her hands moved across the gilt-edged paper. As for Lucina, she had set up her doll primly in a corner of the arbor, and was knitting her stent.
Without a pause, without an erasure this letter had transcribed itself from Cornelia's heart to the small gilt-edged note paper; but she found it a much more difficult thing to answer the request of Rem Van Ariens. She was angry at him for putting her in such a dilemma.
It was a white-backed card of superfine texture, gilt-edged, and bore a familiar figure. "The Knave of Clubs," said Stafford King lifting his eyes. "The Jack of Clubs," said the colonel gravely; "that is its name I understand, for I am not a gambling man." He did not bat a lid nor did Stafford King smile. "I remember," said the detective chief, "you received one before.
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