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Simoun, the evil genius of the Captain-General, the rich trader to whose house they had gone to buy unset gems, Simoun, who had received the Orenda girls with great courtesy and had paid them fine compliments! For the very reason that the story seemed absurd it was believed. "Credo quia absurdum," said St. Augustine. "But wasn't Simoun at the fiesta last night?" asked Sensia. "Yes," said Momoy.
The day was nearly done; only the hem of his golden robe was rustling. Soon it was almost dark, but the look-out men still remained unset. "Can't see the spout now, sir; too dark" cried a voice from the air. "How heading when last seen?" "As before, sir, straight to leeward." "Good! he will travel slower now 'tis night. Down royals and top-gallant stunsails, Mr. Starbuck.
The piteous list of casualties is not so long as it has been. A wounded German was brought in to-day. Both his legs were broken and his feet frost-bitten. He had been for four days in water with nothing to eat, and his legs unset. He is doing well. On Sunday I drove out to Pervyse with a kind friend, Mr. Tapp.
Having heard my little story, you understand that you owe me nothing but your society; and a careful inventory of this trust." We were a long time examining the contents of the case. There were six bags of coin, all gold louis; many unset gems; rings for the hand; and clusters of various sorts which I knew not how to name, that blazed with a kind of white fire very dazzling.
And, of course, you'll understand it wasn't possible to count all those unset stones that 'ud take a week; but your seal is on that big chest, too, so you'll know if it's been opened. You are certain you can preserve the peace of your state with the army you have?" "Yes," said Howrah curtly. "Don't want me to leave a squadron of my men to help you out?" "No!" He said that even more abruptly.
"I will send it to my bank when I can get any letters through, and then when this snowball is big enough I will invest it." "In mines?" still idly interested and smiling. She shook her head. "I leave that to my father, he is a good judge and he is lucky at it, and my mother is always buying patches of land and trading them off, usually to good advantage. But my specialty is unset stones.
There was a magnificent coronet which he had often admired on Lady Vandeleur; there were rings and brooches, ear-drops and bracelets, and even unset brilliants rolling here and there among the rosebushes like drops of morning dew.
A liberal reward will be given to any person affording information that may lead to the apprehension of a tall man, walking lame, who is known to have a large quantity of unset diamonds in his possession, and who most likely has attempted to dispose of the same." But this advertisement remained unanswered. "They're too clever for us, sir," Mr. Carter remarked to one of the Scotland-Yard officials.
And there was something akin to admiration in the sheriff's expression. But Patsy did not see. She was looking hard at the tinker, with an odd little smile pulling at the corners of her mouth. The tinker smiled back, while he reached deep into his trousers pocket and brought out a small package which he presented to the sheriff. "Are those what you are looking for?" They were five unset diamonds.
I have arrived at the definite conclusion that my career in England has come to a full stop, and I have made up my mind to create another out of whole cloth in the United States." She stared at him, her face not yet unset, but her eyes expanding with incredulous apprehension. "You mean to desert England?" she asked, quietly. "Forever. Absolutely. It is all or nothing.
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