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"It's of value, but its value's impaired, I've learned, by a crack." "A crack? in the gold ?" "It isn't gold." With which, somewhat strangely, Maggie smiled. "That's the point." "What is it then?" "It's glass and cracked, under the gilt, as I say, at that." "Glass? of this weight?" "Well," said Maggie, "it's crystal and was once, I suppose, precious.
The sunshine of her eyes has not beamed upon me since I beheld you delightedly and gallantly figuring at her side at Daddy Value's ball, where I exhibited sundry feats of the same sort myself. "By the way, Mons. V. is still in fiddling condition, and the immaculate Ann Jane Caroline Gibbs, Madame, has bestowed a subject on the state!!
"It's of value, but its value's impaired, I've learned, by a crack." "A crack? in the gold ?" "It isn't gold." With which, somewhat strangely, Maggie smiled. "That's the point." "What is it then?" "It's glass and cracked, under the gilt, as I say, at that." "Glass? of this weight?" "Well," said Maggie, "it's crystal and was once, I suppose, precious.
"Everything of value's gone," he said quietly. "I went all through the house before you came and saw it: the silver downstairs; even a lot of the pictures are cut out of their frames. Looters have been here, and they've made a clean sweep. I hoped you wouldn't see it. Come, let's go."
Finally from sheer exhaustion he quieted down and came out of his trance. He probably thought that he had given them their value's worth and what they had wanted, and that they should be satisfied. It was now decreed that, this being the direct command of Torngak, Chealuk must be expelled from the camp.
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