Stone in example sentence
Can you tell me why honestly gotten gold should be hidden in the bowels of the earth?""Grach!- I t'ink it must be to keep t'e Skinner from findin' him; if he know where he be, why don't he dig him up?""There may be reasons not comprehensible to you," said Katy, moving her chair so that her clothes covered the charmed stone, underneath which lay the secret treasures of the peddler, unable to refrain from speaking of what she would have been very unwilling to reveal; "but a rough outside often holds a smooth inside."