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Updated: May 11, 2025
Her dress was some wonderful mingling of misty lace, with the sheen of satin and glimmering showers of pearl; diamonds glittered on her bodice like sunlight on white foam; the brigand's jewels flashed gloriously on her round white throat and in her tiny shell-like ears, while the masses of her gold hair were coiled to the top of her small head and there caught by a priceless circlet of rose-brilliants brilliants that I well remembered they had belonged to my mother.
He makes no reply, as by this time they have reached the crowded drawing-room, where Lady Winsleigh, radiant in ruby velvet and rose-brilliants, stands receiving her guests, with a cool smile and nod for mere acquaintances, and a meaning flash of her dark eyes for her intimates, and a general air of haughty insolence and perfect self-satisfaction pervading her from head to foot. Mrs.
It contained a necklace of large rubies and diamonds, with bracelets to match, and pins of their hair also a sapphire ring a cross of fine rose-brilliants, and the pearl pendant I had first found in the vault.
She laughed nervously, and played with her ring of rose-brilliants. "It is not yet too late," I resumed, "if on second thoughts you would rather not marry me, you have only to say so. I shall accept my fate with equanimity, and shall not blame you." At this she seemed quite alarmed, and rising, laid her hand pleadingly on my arm. "Surely you are not offended?" she said.
I took up the little hand on which the wedding-ring I had placed there was still worn, and quietly slipped upon the slim finger a circlet of magnificent rose-brilliants. I had long carried this trinket about with me in expectation of the moment that had now come. She started from my arms with an exclamation of delight. "Oh, Cesare! how lovely! How good you are to me!"
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