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And it is not your quadroon bondsmaid, sweet lady, who now disrobes you so roughly; those Malay hands are less deft than hers, but she slumbers very far away from you, and may not be aroused from her sleep. "Na quita mo! dalaga! na quita maganda!" ... Juan, the fastenings of those diamond ear-drops are much too complicated for your peon fingers: tear them out! "Dispense, chulita!" ...
'Exactly so, returned the iguana; 'I think I could say that! Whereupon he sang out at the top of his voice 'Bones make up his dais, with mud it's plastered o'er, Old shoes are his ear-drops: a jackal, nothing more! And turning round, he bolted for his hole as hard as he could. The jackal could scarcely believe his ears, and sat dumb with astonishment.
When Lucina Merritt came to meeting the Sunday after the Colonel's return, there glistened in her little ears, between her curls, some diamond ear-drops, and Abigail wore a shawl which had never been seen in Upham before.
"She! a great lady? Oh, lor'!" "Yes only see how she was dressed, in scarlet gown, and violet gloves like a bishop's; and, when she took off her bonnet, she had a diamond band round her head-dress of false, light hair, and diamond ear-drops as large as my thumb, and diamond rings on every finger! None of your tuppenny beauties would wear so many diamonds in the middle of the day."
Long, pale amber ear-drops completed her adornments, and she flourished yes, she really did a large red and yellow bandana! The younger of the two wives was quite pretty. She had brilliant black eyes, good features, and was very attractive in her gay dress.
The only difference in the dress of the sisters was in their ornaments. Aimee wore heavy ear-drops, and a large necklace and bracelets of amethyst; while Genifrede wore, suspended from a throat-band of velvet, embroidered like that which bound her waist, a massive plain gold crucifix, lately given her by Moyse.
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