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Her dark hair, woven with coins and trinkets, fell in innumerable long slender braids behind, from under a coronet of jessamine blossoms strung together upon strips of palm, which clasped the clustering waves of hair closer about her face pure and colorless as old ivory.
He seemed to associate it in some manner with the ring he held, for he glanced from one to the other alternately. "Did Mary wear that ring before the child was lost?" asked Glenn. "No," replied Roughgrove, "but her mother did." "I believe he is your son!" said Glenn. "Mary," he continued, "have you any trinkets or toys you used to play with?" "Yes.
But mother said "No," with tears in her eyes; "if the common farmer had won the great lady of the ancient race, what were rings and old-world trinkets, when compared to the living jewel?"
He waved all hands toward the buildings and they swarmed inside, carrying out load after load of such articles as could be moved and piling them out of reach of the flames. The girl sat apart and watched them work. Her lethargy had returned. It seemed a small matter to rescue these trinkets when the Three Bar was a total wreck.
Cecil was too happy herself that morning not to be amiable to others, and Lola was her favourite; so she would not hurry her, and waited patiently the child's indecision and chatter as she turned over the trinkets. "Actually Miss Prosody gave me a dictionary; horrid of her, wasn't it? Perhaps she'll ask me to say a column a morning. I think I'll leave it by accident on one of the islands."
"But it's a clear case, sir. That Fayre girl took it. She got scared and tried to run home, then decided it would be better to face the music, so she returned. She's the one, of course. She adores those old trinkets; the others don't care two cents for them. She put it on her dress, probably she took it off again, but after that the temptation to possess the thing was too strong for her.
"This," answered the major, laying before his sisters two small packages, each marked with the name of its proper owner. "My mother has her's, too, and my father has not been forgotten." Beulah's exclamations proved how much she was gratified with her presents; principally trinkets and jewelry, suited to her years and station.
Her own trinkets had gone in masses for the souls of her father and husband; and though a few costly jewels had been found in Frau Kunigunde's hoards, the mode of their acquisition was so doubtful, that it had seemed fittest to bestow them in alms and masses for the good of her soul.
"And so, sir, your mind is sincerely made up to offer this chain to your future wife?" "Yes, laty; or what might be better, to das yoong frau, before we might be marriet." "And is your choice made?" glancing round at the girls, who were grouped together, looking at some other trinkets of my uncle's. "Have you chosen the young woman who is to possess so handsome a chain?"
Martin and Alfred, who had their backs to him at the time of Mr Campbell's exclamation, turned round and beheld the Indian. He was an elderly man, very tall and muscular, dressed in leggings and deer-skin coat, a war-eagle's feather, fixed by a fillet, on his head, and a profusion of copper and brass medals and trinkets round his neck.
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