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I even bought a pearl necklace for my fiancée, Kate Tender, but she married somebody else instead.
Well, that necklace cost me only $1.50, but you can absolutely trust me on this, professor, its pearls were so big, they wouldn't have gone through that strainer with twenty holes."
On hearing all this, his sister would break out in tears of emotion, and Gregor would climb up to her shoulder and kiss her neck, which, since she had been going out to work, she had kept free without any necklace or collar.
Her head was without ornament; but around her throat was a necklace of gold clasped in front with a rich cornelian.
The child had a little necklace on of gold beads, and I had my eye upon that, and in the dark of the alley I stooped, pretending to mend the child's clog that was loose, and took off her necklace, and the child never felt it, and so led the child on again.
I set myself out, too, as well as a widow's dress in second mourning would admit; my governess also furnished me with a good pearl necklace, that shut in behind with a locket of diamonds, which she had in pawn; and I had a very good figure; and as I stayed till I was sure they were come, I came in a coach to the door, with my maid with me.
I observed the biggest had a fine gold watch on, and a good necklace of pearl, and they had a footman in livery with them; but as it is not usual for the footman to go behind the ladies in the Mall, so I observed the footman stopped at their going into the Mall, and the biggest of the sisters spoke to him, which I perceived was to bid him be just there when they came back.
I was once of the mind to venture staying with Lady Betty till she missed the watch, and so have made a great outcry about it with her, and have got her into the coach, and put myself in the coach with her, and have gone home with her; for she appeared so fond of me, and so perfectly deceived by my so readily talking to her of all her relations and family, that I thought it was very easy to push the thing farther, and to have got at least the necklace of pearl; but when I considered that though the child would not perhaps have suspected me, other people might, and that if I was searched I should be discovered, I thought it was best to go off with what I had got, and be satisfied.
Dorothea then took out of her pillow-case a complete petticoat of some rich stuff, and a green mantle of some other fine material, and a necklace and other ornaments out of a little box, and with these in an instant she so arrayed herself that she looked like a great and rich lady.
A child was brought in, who had swallowed a necklace.'
'A necklace,' replied Jack Hopkins.
Child's eldest sister bought a necklace--common necklace, made of large black wooden beads.
Child being fond of toys, cribbed the necklace, hid it, played with it, cut the string, and swallowed a bead.
The sister, who was an industrious girl, and seldom treated herself to a bit of finery, cried her eyes out, at the loss of the necklace; looked high and low for it; but, I needn't say, didn't find it.
"Why, damme, it's IN the child!" said the father, "he's got the croup in the wrong place!""No, I haven't, father," said the child, beginning to cry, "it's the necklace; I swallowed it, father."--The
That necklace alone would fetch money enough to organize an army of nurses.
"I think I know a necklace you'd like, if you care for such things," said Tarvin, quietly.
"Do you really want that necklace?" he asked her abruptly.
They say that the necklace was begun when William the Conqueror came over."
Nobody can as much as guess where that necklace is.""Probably under the foundations of some temple in the city," said the yellow-coated man.
He hungered for the moment when, with the necklace in his pocket and Kate by his side, he should again set his face westward.
Tarvin debated for a while whether he should tell him of the excursion he was proposing to himself, and then decided that he would look at the necklace first, and open negotiations later.
Tarvin registered an oath to find that scoffer when he had found the necklace, and looked to his foothold more carefully.
That idle monarch, who, he now saw plainly, had sent him there either in a mood of luxurious sportiveness or to throw him off the scent of the necklace, remained the only man from whom he could look for final victory.
But when Tarvin asked him where that precious necklace lived, the Maharaj Kunwar shook his head, answering sweetly, "I do not know."
But Dhunpat Rai had not seen the necklace since the crowning of the present King, fifteen years before.
The infernal thing seemed to be a myth, a word, a proverb anything rather than the finest necklace in the world.
He was forced to writhe in inaction and in wonder about his necklace, while these childish games went forward; but he constantly kept the corner of an eye upon the movements of the Maharaj Kunwar.
The many-colored turbans showed under the flickering light like the jewels of a broken necklace, and all the white housetops were crowded with the veiled figures of women.
He found himself asking whether either temple or necklace had been real, and in the midst of his wonder and excitement was half-way to the city before he knew that he had left the rest-house.
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