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Those who are present to-night will be in my Cabinet. I should like if possible to have all the foundation girls on my side, but that must be decided at our next meeting. I am willing to purchase a badge for each girl who joins me; it will be made of silver, and can be worn beneath the dress in the form of a locket." "Oh, lovely, delicious! There never was such a queen," cried Susy Hopkins.
She seized the flowers and pressed them to her swelling heart etc., etc. in a word we refer the reader to earlier pages. Twinkling in her breast poor old Pen saw a locket which he had bought of Mr. Nathan in High Street, with the last shilling he was worth, and a sovereign borrowed from Smirke.
He was thinking, and did not answer at once, and she went on in some alarm. "Do you know anything about him, Captain Keith? Where is he? Why is he here? Don't be afraid to tell me." He pressed the locket back into her hand, retaining the latter, unresisted, within his own. "I have not seen your father, Hope, but he was certainly here a few days ago, for Fairbain met him.
Then her hand, as with her first waking thought it had done for the last week, went to the locket chain around her neck. Oh, yes, yes; she had forgotten. The sapphire was gone. Gone by fraud, gone at a kiss for ever with Harry no, with Farrell Wand. For Harry was not Harry; and Kerr was not Farrell Wand. He was indeed an unknown quantity.
"I'll unfasten it for you as soon as I get the dishes done." "I want to see it now! Mamma, shan't Polly take off her locket, and let me see it?" "Polly, why can't you try to please you cousin, and not be so stingy with your things?" "My hands are soapy," she apologized, "and " "Well, don't you know enough to wipe them?" snapped Aunt Jane. "You seem to have grown very helpless."
"Real diamonds, all set round with pearls, and such a chain and locket!" "I don't care," said Bertie; meaning, of course, that she did care very much. "We girls haven't got so much money and we can't have real things. Katie Robertson did not speak at all, except to answer the questions of Eric, who had come for her, as to whether she had had a pleasant time decidedly in the affirmative.
"If you give me a certain sum of money to spend for myself every month I am going to save out of it until I have enough to buy a locket exactly like that one I lost If it isn't found, I mean." "Ah!" "You approve, Uncle Dick?" "Most assuredly. That would be following out my suggestion of learning to take care of money in the fullest sense, my dear."
In what limbo could he imagine her? Ah, that was the wildering cruelty of it. She was not this woman, nor was she dead in any conceivable natural way so that her girlish spirit might have remained eternally fixed. She was nothing. She was nowhere. She existed only in this locket, and her only soul was in his heart, far more surely than in this woman who had forgotten her.
One saw her, younger but no less invincibly lady-like, leaning on a chair with a fringed back, a curl in her neck, a locket on her tuckered bosom, toward the end of an embossed morocco album beginning with The Beauties of the Second Empire. She received her daughter-in-law's suitor with an affability which implied her knowledge and approval of his suit.
His new pal had one too, and he 'ad just taken a pull at it and wiped his mouth, when 'e noticed a little bill pinned up at the back of the bar. "Lost, between the Mint and Tower Stairs," he ses, leaning forward and reading very slow, "a gold locket set with diamonds. Whoever will return the same to Mr. Smith Orange Villa Barnet will receive thirty pounds reward." "'Ow much?" ses Sam, starting.
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