How many bonnets and dresses and shawls and laces and jewels this money would buy?
How she longed to lay it out! But she dared not do it yet.

She dared not even open the canvas bags.

She must conceal her riches.
She began to put the bags back in the satchel.
In doing so, she perceived that she had not half emptied it--there was something in each of the buttoned pockets on the inside.

She opened the pockets and turned out their contents.
Rainbows and sunbeams and flashes of lightning! Her eyes were dazzled with splendor.

There was set in a ring a large solitaire diamond in which seemed collected all the light and color of the sun! There was a watch in a gold hunting case, thickly studded with precious stones, and bearing in the center of its circle the initials of the late owner, set in diamonds, and which was suspended to a heavy gold chain.