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"M. de Guiche's wounds are the result of a pistol-bullet that broke his ring-finger and the little finger of the right hand, and afterwards buried itself in the intercostal muscles of the chest." "A bullet! Are you sure Monsieur de Guiche was wounded by a bullet?" exclaimed the king, pretending to look much surprised. "Indeed, I am, sire; so sure, in fact, that here it is."
"It's weird," said he solemnly, "and weird mun hae way." I looked at him closely. That he was struck to the heart was plain to see, but, the first uprush of grief over, he had become sober, steadfast, almost business-like, as if he had something great in hand to do, and would be doing it. He took the candle, now only the length of my ring-finger, and stuck it on the narrow window-ledge.
So I will tell you what has happened. Sit down there on the bed and be quiet. You have a right to know it all, and I have the right to tell you." Then she stood before him, with her right hand covering the white mark on the ring-finger, and told him the strange story of the Mass for the dead who had been too much loved. He listened with changing eyes, now full of doubt, now full of wonder and awe.
He laid a wrinkled finger on his lips; his dark face quivered with mystery and emotion. "One li'l bare arm," he repeated, "an' I see de sign!" "What sign?" I stammered. "De bride-sign on de ring-finger! Yaas, suh. An' I say, 'Whar yo' ring, Miss Dorry? An' she 'low ain' nebber wore no ring. An' I say, 'Whar dat ring, Miss Dorry?
A couple of hours later Tilly came flying in, caught Polly up in a bear's hug, and danced her round the room. "My dear, wish me joy! Oh, lor, Polly, I DO feel 'appy!" She was wearing a large half-hoop of diamonds on her ring-finger: nothing would do "old O." but that they should drive there and then to the finest jeweller's in Sturt Street, where she had the pick of a trayful. And now Mr.
She made them both sit down on elegant seats in front of the boiling pots, tied the "thread of Anubis" round the ring-finger of each, asked in a low whisper between muttered words of incantation for a hair of each, and after placing the hairs both in one cauldron she cried out with wild vehemence, as though the weal or woe of her two visitors were involved in the smallest omission: "Press the finger with the thread of Anubis on your heart; fix your eyes on the cauldron and the steam which rises to the spirits above, the spirits of light, the great One on high!"
But, however," he added, assisting his description with the thumb and the two forefingers of his right hand, thrust out after the fashion of a bird's claw, while the little finger and ring-finger were closed upon the palm, "to the Court I went, and my friend that promised me a sight of his Majesty's most gracious presence, was as gude as his word, and carried me into the back offices, where I got the best breakfast I have had since we came here, and it did me gude for the rest of the day; for as to what I have eaten in this accursed town, it is aye sauced with the disquieting thought that it maun be paid for.
"I'm hanged if I see any other explanation," he said. "Do you, Berkeley?" I shook my head. "Don't forget which finger it is that is missing," said Thorndyke. "The third finger of the left hand." "Oh, I see!" said Jervis. "The ring-finger. You mean that it may have been removed for the sake of a ring that wouldn't come off." "Yes. It would not be the first instance of the kind.
Come sit here, beside me. Move over, King Hiram." The leopard obeyed with good temper. Beside her was an onyx bowl. She took from it a perfectly plain ring of orichalch and slipped it on my left ring-finger. I saw that she wore one like it. "Tanit-Zerga, give Monsieur de Saint-Avit a rose sherbet." The dark girl in red silk obeyed. "My private secretary," said Antinea, introducing her.
Wilkinson observes “The left was considered the hand peculiarly privileged to bear these ornaments; and it is remarkable that its third finger was decorated with a greater number than any other, and was considered by them, as by us, par excellence, the ring-finger; though there is no evidence of its having been so honoured at the marriage ceremony.”
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