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Each article of clothing found upon them, or any trinket, or other property, which might lead to the discovery of the name and friends of the dead, is carefully preserved. Bodies properly identified are surrendered to the friends of the deceased. Those unclaimed are interred at the expense of the city, and their effects are preserved a much longer time for purposes of identification.
"I thought as much," returned Judith. "What will you give me to save him?" "I have nothing," rejoined Nizza, with a troubled look "nothing but thanks to give you." "Think again," said Judith. "Girls like you, if they have no money, have generally some trinket some valuable in their possession." "That is not my case," said Nizza, bursting into tears.
"You can fetch it," she said, as she went to her room. He however would not fetch it. She had accepted it, and he would not take it back again, let the fate of the gem be what it might. But to the feminine and more cautious mind the very value of the trinket made its position out there on the bench, within the grasp of any dishonest gardener, a burden to her.
"There is a trinket a locket containing a miniature, which I am assured is a portrait of Marie Antoinette. This locket is in the possession of Dormer Colville, who suggests that we should refrain from using violence to open it until this can be done in France in the presence of suitable witnesses.
"If he wants to buy anything, the white sahib points to it and asks, 'How much? Then, whether it is a brass iota, or a silver trinket, or a file, or a bunch of fruit, the native says a price four times as much as he would ask anyone else. Then the sahib offers him half, and after protesting many times that the sum is impossible, the dealer accepts it, and both parties are well satisfied.
"That is all very well, señor," the lady replied; "but where is the real to come from? Amongst us all we could not find a quarto to cross our hands with." "Well, give her some trinket or another, that Preciosa may come another day to see us, when we will treat her better." "No," said Doña Clara, "I will give her nothing to-day, and I shall be sure she will come again."
But the £50 they had paid for the first, though it had seemed a sufficient sum to her when regarded from the stand-point of a woman surrounded by every luxury, and able to spend the whole of it on some trinket, looked small enough too small as the result of many weeks of labor, by which she and her children were to be fed.
Both men roared with laughter as the hairy leg skipped and danced and hobbled while the bangles tinkled merrily. "Thou art a keen Jew, my friend," Antipas said. "Thou tellest not the name of the woman. If she shall scorn thy gift then canst thou give it to another for, ever there are women whose softness can be thine for a jeweled trinket."
Matilda wrapped up the trinket again and put it away, and went to bed; as happy as it seemed possible for her to be. Sunday morning was high and bright, it must be confessed, when she awoke. Bells were ringing, the eight o' clock bells she thought they must be; but indeed they were the bells for Sunday school.
If you have, tell me what she says." "I am reading it now," his wife replied; and thus she continued: "The strongest emotion of my life has been pity, and you know that I never could keep a doll nor a trinket if a strong appeal was made for it. I grew up to know that this was a weakness rather than a virtue, but never has my judgment been strong enough to prevail against it.
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