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Updated: June 21, 2025

Burlingame's diamond stomacher was not then based on envy of its possession, but merely upon the twofold nuisance which it created at the opera-house, as the lady who wore it sat and listened to the strains of Wagner, Bizet, or Gounod, mixed in with the small-talk of Reggie Stockson, Tommie de Coupon, and other lights of the social firmament.

John Kendrick Bangs - R. Holmes & Co. : Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq., Detective and Amateur Cracksman by Birth