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And all the friends That Bill had useta have is customers, And all get stung the same. And dozens more. Them old days Bill was one fine friend for sure, Happy and nice and straight and generous. And now to think he high-brows you and me! A great big house he's got, and a new Packard, And di'monds for his wife, that scrubbed the floors Back in the days when he was only barkeep.
'Bunsby! said the Captain, rendering irrepressible homage to his genius, 'here you are! a man as can give an opinion as is brighter than di'monds and give me the lad with the tarry trousers as shines to me like di'monds bright, for which you'll overhaul the Stanfell's Budget, and when found make a note. Here you are, a man as gave an opinion in this here very place, that has come true, every letter on it, which the Captain sincerely believed.
"'Twould be difficult, in some cases," thought many present. "'Pon honour, di'monds are cursed expensive things, I know!" said Heathcock. "But, be that as it may," whispered he to the lady, though loud enough to be heard by others, "I've laid a damned round wager, that no woman's diamonds married this winter, under a countess, in Lon'on, shall eclipse Lady Isabel Heathcock's! and Mr.
An' her hair was as long as the tail av the Colonel's charger forgive me mentionin' that blunderin' baste in the same mouthful with Annie Bragin but 'twas all shpun gold, an' time was when ut was more than di'monds to me. There was niver pretty woman yet, an' I've had thruck wid a few, cud open the door to Annie Bragin.
"'By gracious, I never thought of that! NOW we're on the homestretch, to a dead moral certainty. How'll we manage? "'Well, I says, 'just stay by him till I turn out and hunt up a drug store, and I reckon I'll fetch something that'll make them di'monds tired of the company they're keeping.
"But still it might have happened," continued Lady Bearcroft, "that her ladyship did not notice the delicacy of the way in which the thing was put for it really was put so that nobody could take hold of it against any of us you understand; and after all, such a curiosity of a Sevigne as this, and such fine 'di'monds, was too pretty, and too good a thing to be refused hand-over-head, in that way.
'There's di'monds in Brazil, he says, 'whole mines of 'em; an' there's some di'monds out o' Brazil too; and then he'd wink, and laugh out hearty, the way he used. He was always laughin', Father was. An' when times was hard, he'd say to my mother, 'Wealthy, we won't sell the di'monds yet a while.
"That's tattooin', if ever there was tattooin'; an', what's more," she went on, nodding her head with great positiveness, "I know who done it, leastways I know part of 'is name . . . Don't stare, now; lemme think . . . Yes, it's plain as plain. 'Four di'monds, she said; an' di'monds they are, same as on a pack o' cards me all the time thinkin' of them as the ladies wear on their fingers.
"Thrue, boy, the Baron Fagoni feeds well, bekase he's the cock o' the roost; but the poor Naygurs are not overly well fed, and the critters are up to their knees in wather all day, washing di'monds; so they suffer much from rheumatiz and colds. Och, but it's murther entirely; an' I've more than wance felt inclined to fill their pockets with di'monds and set them all free!
Don't you recollect the young lady I introduced you to last night after the opera? 'The little, plain girl, covered with diamonds, who was standing beside Miss Nugent? 'In di'monds, yes. But you won't think her plain when you see more of her that wears off; I thought her plain, at first I hope
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