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Updated: May 2, 2025
From the thumb-joint of a notorious criminal he can savour exquisitely morbid emotions, while the blood-stains on an assassin's knife fill him with the delicious lust of slaughter. In the same way predestined spinsters obtain vicarious enjoyment of the tender passion by reading highly coloured love-stories."
"How long has she been here with you?" "About two weeks." "Two weeks! You didn't tell me that." "She wouldn't let me. She is having trouble enough and I have to do pretty much as she wants." He ruminated for a moment, this time scrutinizing the palms of his hands, seemingly interested in some callous spots near the thumb-joint, and then asked: "How did she find you?"
He put his hand into his pocket, took a cigar, bit it, dropped it, thrust his shaking thumb into his mouth and mumbled, 'The giant gooseberry and the raining frogs! Gimme a light gimme a light! Say, gimme a light. A little bead of blood dropped from his thumb-joint. I respected the motive, though the manifestation was absurd.
Each of the five pearls was of almost incalculable value; but one, an iridescent Oman, far surpassed the others. This pearl was about the size of a man's largest thumb-joint. Its shape was a smooth oval; its hue, even in that dim, wind-tossed light, showed a wondrous, tender opalescence that seemed to change and blend into rainbow iridescences as the staring Legionaries peered at it.
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