Identifier: harpersnew0109various (find matches)
Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 109 June to November 1904
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: various
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University-Idaho

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? Mistress Eileen, said the nurse, thebrooches and the chains and the ringsthat were my lady your mammas, thatsnow in glory, are all put by for you tillyou come to be eighteen years of age, andthe case they are in is in the old pressin the blue room, and the key of the pressis upon my bunch. Shall we go now andsearch and see if there is a mans ringamongst them ? Eileen sprang forward and seized hernurses hand to pull her from the chair. We will go down at once, she cried. Then together they descended to thelong room below. It was lit by three nar-row windows, and at one end was a greatbed of state in faded blue, holding thesecret of many a birth and death of thatdwindled house. Against the wall, facing the blue bed,was a tall cupboard of black oak carvedwith curious figures strangely spreadingtheir feet and hands. Having closed the door, the nursechose a key from her dangling bunch;opening an inner drawer, she drew out avelvet case, once purple, now faded to ascore of different hues.
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THERE IS A CHARM, SAID THE NURSE AT LAST THE CHARMING OF ESTERCEL. 77 The old woman carried the case to thebed, while Eileen eagerly followed her;together they opened it and gazed uponits contents. The box was very old, andthe velvet partitions were all brokendown, so that the jewels lay heapedtogether, emitting faint rays of light.Eileen put out a half-reluctant hand, lift-ed them one by one, and laid them onthe bed. Two gold chains she laid out, then anecklace of brilliants, set in solid silver,chased and tarnished; large, heavy brace-lets encrusted with various colored stones;two worked brooches of the old Celticfashion, both of gold; a waist-chain, anda gem for the forehead. Then the nurse picked up somethingthat lay at the bottom of the box. Seehere, rose of my heart, she cried, hold-ing it up. This is a mans ring,sure enough. Eileen seized upon it; but as she looked,blank disappointment spread over herface. It was a huge old ring of silver,of a great weight, with a narrow band,a

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