Foul Play, Dion Boucicault [english novels for students .txt] 📗

and said, that, in her opinion, many of them were uncut gems of great price; there was certainly a quantity of jaspers and blood-stones, and others of no value at all. “But look at these two pearl-shaped diamonds,” said she; “why, they are a little fortune! and oh!” The stone that struck this fair creature dumb was a rough ruby as big as a blackbird’s egg, and of amazing depth and fire. “No lady in England,” said she, “has a ruby to compare with this.”

The information proved correct. The box furnished Helen with diamonds and emeralds of great thickness and quality. But the huge ruby placed her on a level with sovereigns. She wears it now and then in London, but not often. It attracts too much attention, blazing on her fair forehead like a star, and eclipses everything.

Well, what her ruby is among stones she is among wives. And he is worthy of her. Through much injustice, suffering, danger, and trouble, they have passed to health, happiness, and peace, and that entire union of two noble hearts, in loyal friendship and wedded love, which is the truest bliss this earth affords.

 

End of Project Gutenberg’s Foul Play, by Charles Reade and Dion Boucicault