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Despite Emma's explanations, as soon as the recitative duet began in which Gilbert lays bare his abominable machinations to his master Ashton, Charles, seeing the false troth-ring that is to deceive Lucia, thought it was a love-gift sent by Edgar. He confessed, moreover, that he did not understand the story because of the music, which interfered very much with the words.
Now I have forty shillings by me which I may spend as I list, and so I do beseech thee that thou wilt take yon dagger of me as a love-gift, and have and hold it for thy very own." Gascoyne stared open-mouthed at Myles. "Dost mean it?" said he, at last. "Aye," said Myles, "I do mean it. Master Smith, give him the blade."
I cried, "as much as this signet I wear, which was your love-gift to Guido Ferrari, and which you afterward returned to me, its rightful owner. These are my mother's gems how dared you wear them? The stones I gave you are your only fitting ornaments they are stolen goods, filched by the blood-stained hands of the blackest brigand in Sicily!
Perhaps it would be a good arrangement, Mr Dorrit hinted, smiling, to purchase both, and to present the love-gift first, and to finish with the nuptial offering? Ah Heaven! said the little woman, laying the tips of the fingers of her two little hands against each other, that would be generous indeed, that would be a special gallantry!
It was the culprit that should have spoken, and spoken in time. "Why, why did you not write yourself?" was the plaintive cry of all the Earl's friends, from highest to humblest. "But write to her now," they exclaimed, "at any rate; and, above all, send her a present, a love-gift." "Lay out two or three hundred crowns in some rare thing, for a token to her Majesty," said Christopher Hatton.
Everywhere it would pass for a love-gift, the work of his mistress. Nor did my penetration stop there.
The woman of the house gave me a love-gift, that I found, playing near the verandah." "And what was the gift, Father Adam?" "A nose-ring for my ayah. Ohe! ohe! Look at that camel with a bag on his nose." A string of loaded camels came cruising round the corner, as a fleet rounds a cape. "Ho, Malik! why does not a camel salaam like an elephant? His neck is long enough," Adam cried.
You almost saw her eyelids move, her breast rise and fall to her breathing. The man trembled before his masterpiece. His heart swelled. He exulted in his genius, a high gift to be laid at the feet of the beloved. All he had, all he could ever be, belonged to her. She had called forth his best. He said to her painted semblance: "You are my first love-gift.
On the little finger of the shapely hand that every now and then was raised to adjust his cigar, sparkled a diamond that gave out a myriad scintillations as it flashed in the evening light it was of exceptional size and brilliancy, and even at a distance I recognized it as my own property! So! a love-gift, signor, or an in memoriam of the dear and valued friend you have lost?
Her name, her secure position, her happiness, the hopes that the coming years were to transform into realities oh, I like to think that Mary Virginia saw all this, in one of those lightning-flashes of spiritual insight that reveal more than all one's slower years; I like to think she saw it given her freely, nobly, with joy, a glorious love-gift from the limping man into whose empty hand she had one day put a little gray underwing!
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