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Updated: July 29, 2025
"Guess." "I cannot make the effort." "The day after to-morrow is the first of January." "Yes." "It is the season for New Year's gifts." "Yes." "Here is yours, which Laroche handed me just now." She gave him a small black box which resembled a jewel-casket. He opened it indifferently and saw the cross of the Legion of Honor.
The day was one of those perfect gems of days which are to be found only in the jewel-casket of October, a day neither hot nor cold, with an air so clear that every distant pine-tree top stood out in vivid separateness, and every woody point and rocky island seemed cut out in crystalline clearness against the sky.
A pair of statuettes, a golden tobacco-box, a costly jewel-casket, or a pair of richly gemmed horse-pistols the property of some ancient gentleman or dame of emaciated fortune, and which must be sold to keep up the bravery of good clothes and pomade that hid slow starvation went into the shop-window of the ever-obliging apothecary, to be disposed of by tombola.
For a moment the poor girl fancied that her mother believed that she had drank poison: she was on the point of springing up; when the Countess, already at a distance from the bed, spoke in a low voice to her companion, and again Idris listened: "Hasten," said she, "there is no time to lose it is long past eleven; they will be here at five; take merely the clothes necessary for her journey, and her jewel-casket."
"Does your lordship recognize that?" he asked. "My wife's jewel-casket, of course!" exclaimed the Earl. "Of course it is! Bless me! where did you find it?" "In the chimney, in Mrs. Carswell's bedroom," answered Starmidge, with a grimace at Polke. "It's empty!" The Earl took the empty casket from the detective's hand and looked at it, inside and outside, with doubt and wonder.
The lady nodded her pleasure at this, and, after she had convinced herself that the door of the room was in order, she went back to the coach, took a portfolio from the jewel-casket, and brought it to the vicarage.
She shewed the proud minister the letter she had had from me, and told him how the honest young man had given her my jewel-casket. He thanked her for her open dealing, and begged her pardon with a smile for sending a fine young man to her nunnery. "'The secret, said he, 'is of the greatest importance; we must see that it goes no farther.
No sooner does he speak of the daughter, Ginevra by name, than in she comes, jewel-casket in hand, which leads the cynical Greek Chorus to suppose that Mademoiselle is either clairvoyante or prefers going about with a box.
I put a few necessaries into a bag, not forgetting the precious jewel-casket, and I dressed myself up as a man and left the house by a stair only used by the servants. Even the porter did not see me as I made my escape.
"Then I advise you to accept his offer." "I haven't got the money." "I will lend it you with pleasure." I gave him the twenty Louis, and placed the watch in my jewel-casket. At table the niece sat opposite to me, but I took care not to look at her, and she, like a modest girl, did not say a score of words all through the meal.
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