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Her cheeks were glowing with enthusiasm, her lips were parted and her eyes were of a vivid, translucent blue, with the pupils like brilliant sardonyx, full of dark and mysterious lights. She was ready to meet love with a surfeit of the rich gifts which she had at her command. "The people call to thee, Taurus Antinor," she reiterated eagerly; "they want a man to lead them.
Des Esseintes had acquired his two masterpieces and, at night, used to sink into revery before one of them a representation of Salome, conceived in this fashion: A throne, resembling the high altar of a cathedral, reared itself beneath innumerable vaults leaping from heavy Romanesque pillars, studded with polychromatic bricks, set with mosaics, incrusted with lapis lazuli and sardonyx, in a palace that, like a basilica, was at once Mohammedan and Byzantine in design.
He had not gone home, but he had notified Mr. Sardonyx of his presence in town, and signified that that gentleman was to wait upon him immediately. Pending his arrival, Mr. Walraven sat and smoked, and stared at the passers-by, and wondered, with an internal chuckle, how Mme. Blanche felt by this time, and whether Mollie was lonely or not, shut up in the deserted mansion.
"I thought you had forgotten me, Miss Dane," he said, taking her off at once. "Impossible, Mr. Sardonyx," laughed Mollie. "So sorry to have kept you waiting; but better late than never." That dance was the old story over again. At its close the lawyer was so bewitched that he hardly knew whether he stood on his head or heels.
Amethyst, sardonyx, crystal they twinkled and flashed through all the byways of the brain. So long as the house held their owner, it held them also. Two of them he had coveted for years. They must not they should not be lost to him again. By what ridiculous chance had this lad got hold of them?
Bruno of Asti, the venerable Abbot of Monte Cassino, the jasper symbolizes Our Lord, because it is immutably green, eternal without possibility of change; and for the same reason the emerald is the image of the life of the righteous; the chrysoprase means good works; the diamond, infrangible souls; the sardonyx, which resembles the blood-stained seed of a pomegranate, is charity; the jacinth, with its varying blue, is the prudence of the saints; the beryl, whose hue is that of water running in the sunshine, figures the Scriptures elucidated by Christ; the chrysolite, attention and patience, because it has the colour of the gold that mingles in it and lends it its meaning; the amethyst, the choir of children and virgins, because the blue mixed in it with rose pink suggests the idea of innocence and modesty.
Walraven aided and abetted him to-night." "How can I?" "Simply enough. Accuse him and her before us all. There will be no one present you can not trust. Your guardian, Sir Roger, and myself know already. Sardonyx is Mr. Walraven's lawyer, and silence is a lawyer's forte." "Well?" breathlessly. "Accuse him threaten him. Tell him you know his whole fraud from first to last. Accuse her!
And the foundations of the walls of the city were adorned with every precious stone: the first foundation a jasper; the second a sapphire; the third a chalcedony; the fourth an emerald; the fifth a sardonyx; the sixth a sardius; the seventh a chrysolite; the eighth a beryl; the ninth a topaz; the tenth a chrysoprasus; the eleventh a jacinth; the twelfth an amethyst.
Then there was a pause, and then, last of all, arrived Mr. Sardonyx. The blue room bell rang. Margaret ran up and met her mistress at the door. "Are they all down-stairs, Margaret?" in a whisper. "Yes, miss." "Then show them up in the order they arrived. I don't want Sir Roger to know they've been kept waiting." Margaret obeyed. In two minutes she opened the blue-room door, and announced Dr.
Her guardian will bear me out; therefore I still cling to the possibility." "Besides, young ladies possessing sound lungs will hardly permit themselves to be carried off without raising an outcry," said Mr. Sardonyx; "and in this case there was none. The faintest cry would have been heard." "Neither were there any traces of a struggle," put in Mr.
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