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Updated: June 10, 2025
Within a month he would take to himself the entire trade of the neighbourhood. "It's a cinch," murmured Mr. Ring with a glad smile, as he boarded his train, "a lead-pipe cinch." Everybody who has moved about the world at all knows Ring's Come-one Come-all Up-to-date Stores. The main office is in New York.
"Oh, mamma was forced to give it away because of the horrid smell she bid Fowler take it out of the room that minute, and never let it come near her again; but if you want to see it, ring for Fowler: you can examine it as much as you please; depend upon it the ring's no more there than I am send for Fowler and Nancy, and they can tell you how we shook every thing to no purpose.
A trio of decrepit houses in the High Street were pulled down with a run, and from the ruins there began to rise like a Phoenix the striking building which was to be the Wrykyn Branch of Ring's Come-one Come-all Up-to-date Stores. The sensation among the tradesmen caused by the invasion was, as may be imagined, immense and painful. The thing was a public disaster.
"The ring's broken!" shouted Sir Lothian Hume. "I appeal to the referee! The fight is null and void." "You villain!" cried my uncle, hotly; "this is your doing." "You have already an account to answer for with me," said Hume, with his sinister sneer, and as he spoke he was swept by the rush of the crowd into my uncle's very arms.
"I know it ain't quite right to speak of Si as a friend," she explained, when she spread the shirt out for the family's examination and admiration; "but I couldn't think of nothin' to rhyme with brother." "I could," said Maria, in her superior way. "I'd said somethin' like this: "The ring's no end From which to t'other; So is the love I send My onliest brother."
"Well," said Linton, looking down at the sufferer with an expression that was a delicate blend of pity and contempt, "you've made a nice sort of ass of yourself, haven't you! I don't know if it's any consolation to you, but Merrett's just as bad as you are. And I hear the others are, too. So now you see what comes of going to Ring's instead of Cook's."
So its members paid expenses out of their own pockets, and its foreman himself interviewed prisoners and discovered the trail that led to the Ring's undoing. Ames's brother was convicted on second trial and sentenced to six and a half years in the penitentiary, while two of his accomplices received shorter terms. Mayor Ames, under indictment and heavy bonds, fled to Indiana.
"You don't want to stay that length, do you? And unless the ring's on your finger when the time's up, I dare say it wouldn't act." The exalted Mabel sullenly touched the spring. The panels slowly slid into place, and all the bright jewels were hidden. Once more the room was merely eight-sided, panelled, sunlit, and unfurnished. "Now," said Mabel, "where am I to hide?
For this is your truth: ye are TOO PURE for the filth of the words: vengeance, punishment, recompense, retribution. Ye love your virtue as a mother loveth her child; but when did one hear of a mother wanting to be paid for her love? It is your dearest Self, your virtue. The ring's thirst is in you: to reach itself again struggleth every ring, and turneth itself.
'One word! one moment, beautiful lady, began the old woman, with a slavish obeisance. 'Nay, do not push by so cruelly. I have see what I have for you! and she held out with a mysterious air, 'The Rainbow of Solomon. 'Ah! I knew you would stop a moment not for the ring's sake, of course, nor even for the sake of one who once offered it to you. Ah! and where is he now?
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