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Ingelow started, and stared at sight of the trio, where he had looked for but one. Miss Dane greeted him with smiling cordiality, and there was nothing for it but to sink into a chair. Before Mollie's last word of welcome was uttered, the door opened for the third time, and enter Mr. Sardonyx. The tableau was indescribably ludicrous.
It is so like what those old fellows knights and barons and things used to do, you know. And if I didn't like him if it were Sardonyx or Oleander sure, there would be the fun and fame of having my name in all the papers in the country as the heroine of the most romantic adventure of modern times.
They occur upon hard stones of many different kinds, as cornelian, onyx, rock-crystal, sapphirine, sardonyx, chalcedony, etc., and are executed for the most part with great skill and delicacy. The designs which they embody are in general of a mythological character; but sometimes scenes of real life occur upon them, and then the drawing is often good, and almost always spirited.
Very learnedly then from William's lips fell the new vocabulary that had come to him with his latest treasures: chrysoprase, carnelian, girasol, onyx, plasma, sardonyx, lapis lazuli, tourmaline, chrysolite, hyacinth, and carbuncle. "They are lovely, perfectly lovely!" breathed Billy, when the last chain had slipped through her fingers into William's hand.
Among the valuable articles removed hither from La Sainte Chapelle in Paris, in the same year, are to be particularly remarked a sardonyx, representing the apotheosis of Augustus, and commonly called l'agathe de la Sainte Chapelle. This stone is the largest and rarest known of that species. It was brought to France in the year 1383 by king Charles V.
The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, a chalcedony; the fourth, an emerald; the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, a topaz; the tenth, a chrysoprasus; the eleventh, a jacinth; the twelfth, an amethyst.
Willoughby's hand lay palm downwards on his knee, and she, noticing a ring which he wore on his little finger, took hold of it. 'What a funny ring! she said; 'let's look? To disembarrass himself of her touch, he pulled the ring off and gave it her to examine. 'What's that ugly dark green stone? she asked. 'It's called a sardonyx. 'What's it for? she said, turning it about.
The weapon and the three Kalis suddenly became one immense sardonyx that blazed huge and grand for a brief moment. Then the jewel-blaze burned out, and a handful of ashes sifted to the ground. The fourth Kali was undone. It tried to go forward against that jewel-fire. Then it hesitated and darted back.
Van Busch was in the act of taking back the sardonyx signet-ring. His hand jerked again, so sharply that the ring was jerked into the air, fell to the floor, and rolled under the table. He stooped and reached for it, and asked, with his face hidden by the patriotic tablecloth: "What girl do you mean?" His dark face was purple-brown with the exertion of stooping as he rose up.
My previous impression that Miss Dane was not forcibly abducted is continued by the strange manner of her return." "Mine also," chimed in Lawyer Sardonyx. "Suppose we all postpone forming an opinion on the subject," said the lazy voice of the young artist, "until to-morrow, and allow Miss Dane, when the has recovered from her present fatigue and hunger, to explain for herself."
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