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Her success had come as a surprise to them all, but most of all to herself, and the proudest moment of her life had been that when a carefully sealed-up jeweller's box had come directed to 'Miss E. J. Carroll, and she had lifted out her prize under the admiring eyes of Lydia and the children, and the astonished gaze of her mother. Mrs.
The atmosphere of my wedding-day is no less vivid. The house of Ezra Hutchins was scarcely recognizable: its doors and windows were opened wide, and all the morning people were being escorted upstairs to an all-significant room that contained a collection like a jeweller's exhibit, a bewildering display. There was a massive punch-bowl from which dangled the card of Mr. and Mrs.
At last he came to the end of all his resources. He went all day without food; at night he slept as best he could. Morning came, and he was hopeless. All next day passed without a meal. Night came. He could not sleep. He wandered about restlessly. At last, about midnight, an idea seized him. Grasping a brick, he deliberately walked up to a jeweller's window, and smashed a hole through the glass.
And what next what next good God what next? He had loved and petted the first child, the jeweller's child, till the second was born; then, till death, he had remained impenetrable; and when his grave was closed, his flesh dust, his name erased from the list of the living, when he himself was quiet and forever gone, having nothing to scheme for, to dread or to hide, he had given his whole fortune to the second child!
They drove first of all to the jeweller's, where Cornelia was shown the emerald necklace, a wonderful collection of stones, in an antique setting, with which she herself promptly fell in love. The price was excessive, even for her own deep purse, and she concluded that Mr Moffatt's means must be even larger than she had imagined, since his wife seriously contemplated such a purchase.
What a goose I was to believe that story about his changin' the color of his hair! I was an old fool, and that's all about it." "Drive to the jeweller's," said Miss Deborah, when they reached Brandon. In some surprise, Abner complied. Deborah got out of the wagon hastily and entered the store. "What can I do for you, Miss Kensington?" asked the jeweller, who recognized the old lady.
The confidant foresaw this; for she no sooner informed Schemselnihar of the jeweller's fear, but she prepared to go to his house. He received her with all the expressions of profound respect.
But another terrible suspicion had entered the old lady's mind; the ring might not be genuine. "I must know at once," exclaimed the disturbed spinster. "I'll go over to Brandon, to the jeweller's, and inquire. If it's paste, then, Deborah Kensington, you're the biggest fool in Centreville."
The confidant took the letter and carried it to the prince, who answered it immediately. She returned to the jeweller's house to shew him the answer, which was in these words: The Prince of Persia's Answer to Schemselnihar. "Your precious letter has had a great effect upon me, but not so great as I could have wished.
She was roused by Nick scratching seductively at her window from the verandah, and, admitting him, she found him waiting to present a jeweller's box which contained a string of moonstones exquisitely set in silver. It was one of the most beautiful things she had ever seen, and she was delighted with it.
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