"The price of these pearls varies according to their size?" asked Conseil.
The most beautiful are called virgin pearls, or paragons.
"Mapuhi has found a pearl--such a pearl. Never was there one like it ever fished up in Hikueru, nor in all the Paumotus, nor in all the world.
How was he to know the value of such a pearl? Twenty thousand francs was a lot of money--and of his mother's money at that.
At last came the little dwarf's turn; and he looked in the moss; but it was so hard to find the
pearls, and the job was so tiresome!--so he sat down upon a stone and cried.
Natasha involuntarily gazed at that neck, those shoulders, and
pearls and coiffure, and admired the beauty of the shoulders and the
pearls.
Billina wore a
pearl necklace, and around the neck of each chicken was a tiny gold chain holding a locket with the letter "D" engraved upon the outside.
Edward II gave to Piers Gaveston a suit of red-gold armour studded with jacinths, a collar of gold roses set with turquoise-stones, and a skull-cap parseme with pearls. Henry II wore jewelled gloves reaching to the elbow, and had a hawk-glove sewn with twelve rubies and fifty-two great orients.
Here, from the fading canvas, smiled Lady Elizabeth Devereux, in her gauze hood, pearl stomacher, and pink slashed sleeves.
As to any other kind of discipline, whether addressed to her mind or heart, little Pearl might or might not be within its reach, in accordance with the caprice that ruled the moment.
Then, perhaps -- for there was no foreseeing how it might affect her -- Pearl would frown, and clench her little fist, and harden her small features into a stern, unsympathising look of discontent.
"You remember the pearl you were so keen about, Bunny, the emperor's pearl, the pearl money wouldn't buy?
You accuse us of breaking into Captain von Heumann's state-room during the small hours of this morning, and abstracting from it this confounded pearl. Well, I can prove that I was in my own room all night long, and I have no doubt my friend can prove the same."
"The main fact is that he HAD the pearl, and at that moment, when it was on his person, he was pursued by the police.
Of course, I could not say that he had not found the pearl in Harker's bust.
