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A very bsautiful and distinguished lady with a p&Bfiion for emeralds, walking dowu Bond street one morning lately, spied a string of uncut emeralds fastened with an old snap which hugely took her fancy. She described it afterwards with rapture to a husband who had hitherto denied her nothing. Then she inquired of the jeweller the prioe of the emeralds. " Two thousand guineas," was the reply. " I will give down 500," she said. " Keep them for me, and when my husband comes for them say they are .only 1500," then went her way. "That emerald necklace," she murmured at dinner to her husband, "it is marvellously cheap — only 1500gs I Do go aud see ifc 1 " "I will," was the answer, "to-morrow morning." And he went. Shortly afterwards he ieturned. "I bought the emeralds," he remackod, < ' for my mother. I sent them on to her at once. It is her birthday to-morrow, and you know she loves emeralds as much as you do. And we really ought to give her some little return foe all the family jewels she handed over to you when we married."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 52
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187Sold. Otago Witness, Issue 2232, 10 December 1896, Page 52
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