[Love Eternal by H. Rider Haggard]@TWC D-Link bookLove Eternal CHAPTER VIII 12/34
"Let us learn what it is," she went on, possessing herself of and opening the case.
"Oh! a ring, what a pretty ring, with two hearts.
For whom is the ring, Monsieur Godfrey? Someone in England ?" Then Godfrey, overcome, told a lie. "No, for myself," he said. Juliette looked at him and exclaimed: "Then you should have told the jeweller to make it big enough.
Try and you will see." He turned red as a boiled lobster.
Mademoiselle stood opposite to him, shaking her pretty head, and murmuring: "_Quel mensonge! Quel bete mensonge!_" while Madame broke into a low and melodious laughter, and as she laughed, looked first at the ring and then at Juliette's shapely hand. "Make not a mock of our young friend," said the Pasteur, suddenly lifting his glance, or rather his spectacles from a long contemplation of that noble pipe and becoming aware of what was passing.
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