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Updated: June 11, 2025
Good place to live in, first-rate market, tip-top peaches. What do we know about Philadelphia, except that the engine-companies are always shooting each other? And what do you say to New York? asked the Koh-i-noor. A great city, Sir, replied the Little Gentleman, a very opulent, splendid city. A point of transit of much that is remarkable, and of permanence for much that is respectable.
Not if it was the Koh-I-noor; those few whacking stones are too well known, and to cut them up is to decrease their value by arithmetical retrogression. Besides, that brings you up against the Fence once more, and I'm done with the beggars for good and all. You talk about your editors and publishers, you literary swine.
If I had been in search of the Koh-i-noor diamond I should have been as likely to find it there as any vestige of Mc K. I stared at signs, inquired in shops, invaded an eating house, visited the recruiting tent in the middle of the Square, made myself a nuisance generally, and accumulated mud enough to retard another Nile.
Their speculation had not paid; but on the very day that their privilege ran out that native found the $2,000,000-diamond and handed it over to them. Even the diamond culture is not without its romantic episodes. The Koh-i-Noor is a large diamond, and valuable; but it cannot compete in these matters with three which according to legend are among the crown trinkets of Portugal and Russia.
But the experts had agreed that they were diamonds real diamonds! Perhaps they had been deceived, or by George! Did these two men mean to say that they were real diamonds, but that they were manufactured? Mr. Latham's tidy little imagination balked at that. Absurd! Whoever heard of a diamond as big as the Koh-i-noor, or the Regent, or the Orloff being made? They were crazy the pair of them!
Every one has been to the Crystal Palace, so it is of no use talking about the Koh-i-noor, or the fierce-looking Amazon, or the beautiful Veiled Vestal, or the Greek Slave, or those terrible-looking owls or funny foxes, or the other Comical Creatures that came from Wurtemberg. I will, therefore, tell you how we amused ourselves when we were not inclined to have our brains bewildered.
Do you not know that to Winnie and me a hair of your head is more precious than the Koh-i-noor? We must put our heads together and plan some way to get out." She dropped her arms from his shoulders and walked about the cell, searching every stone. Their only hope lay in the window, and that appeared impossible since she had no means of filing through her father's chains and the bars of the window.
I must keep my eyes for plainer work; but I can give the value of the bauble L112,760! and this was before the acquisition of the koh-i-noor. Of the coronation I will try to give a clear, if not a full account. It was a wonderful time in London when that day of days was ushered in, by the roar of cannon from the grim old Tower, answered by a battery in St. James' Park.
Could not always agree with his statements, thought he was a little over-partial to this city, and had some free opinions; but was sorry to lose him, and if there was anything he could . In the midst of these kind expressions, the gentleman with the diamond, the Koh-i-noor, as we called him, asked, in a very unpleasant sort of way, bow the old boy was likely to cut up, meaning what money our friend was going to leave behind.
The Koh-i-noor, as we called him, was in a corner with our landlady's daughter. The young fellow John was smoking out in the yard. The gendarme was afraid of the evening air, and kept inside. The young Marylander came to the door, looked out and saw us walking together, gave his hat a pull over his forehead and stalked off.
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