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There were also rubies and emeralds, upon which she seemed to set special store, and a brooch in the form of a butterfly, which she said was made expressly for her by Lalique. But not a diamond in the collection! It appeared that she regarded diamonds as some men regard champagne as a commodity not appealing to the very finest taste.
Oh, no; that was a Lalique ... the chief artist in this genre in Paris. He should not call it exactly pretty odd rather; but it was very becoming to her.... He should like to see some of her own work, etc. Oh, she should never dare to show him anything she had done. She was nothing but a beginner, etc., etc.
The Lalique jewelry was the sensation of the Paris Exposition of 1899. Yet here is Lalique renewed and changed for every week in the season and lavished on every square foot of a region that is a million square miles in extent. Not a cranny in a rock but is seized on at once by the eager little gardeners in charge and made a bed of bloom, as though every inch of room were priceless.
Lathrop, do you do you know anything about jewelry?" "Jewelry? Nothing! except that I have dabbled in pretty things of that sort as I have dabbled in most things. I once did some designing for a man who set up in Bond Street to imitate Lalique. Why do you ask? I suppose you have heaps of jewels?" "Too many. I want to sell some jewels." "Sell? But " he looked at her in astonishment.
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