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The Bride of the Nile
Complete

CHAPTER IX
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"This stone resembles that on the hanging to a hair; and yet it has a little inequality which I do not remember noticing on it.

It is true I had never seen it out of the setting, and this little boss may have been turned towards the stuff, and yet, and yet .-- Tell me, goldsmith, did the thief give you the emerald bare--unset ?" "As bare as Adam and Eve before they ate the apple," said the Jew.
"That is a pity--a great pity!--And still I fancy that the stone in the work was a trifle longer.

In such a case it is almost folly and perversity to doubt, and yet I feel--and yet I ask myself: Is this really the stone that formed that bud ?" "But Heaven bless us!" cried Orion, "the twin of such an unique gem would surely not drop from the skies and at the same moment into one and the same house.

Let us be glad that the lost sheep has come back to us.
Now, I will lock it into this iron casket, Father, and as soon as the robber is caught you send for me: do you understand, Psamtik ?" He nodded to his parents, offered his hand to the Arab, and that in a way which could not fail to satisfy any one, so that even the old man was won over; and then he left the room.
The merchant's honor was saved; still his conscientious soul was disturbed by a doubt that he could not away with.

He was about to take leave but the Mukaukas was so buried in pillows, and kept his eyes so closely shut, that no one could detect whether he were sleeping or waking; so the Arab, not wishing to disturb him, withdrew without speaking..


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