Profit, about $12,000,000.
Young girls were doing the sorting--a nice, clean, dainty, and probably distressing employment.

Every day ducal incomes sift and sparkle through the fingers of those young girls; yet they go to bed at night as poor as they were when they got up in the morning.

The same thing next day, and all the days.
They are beautiful things, those diamonds, in their native state.

They are of various shapes; they have flat surfaces, rounded borders, and never a sharp edge.

They are of all colors and shades of color, from dewdrop white to actual black; and their smooth and rounded surfaces and contours, variety of color, and transparent limpidity make them look like piles of assorted candies.