A Doffed Coronet

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Excerpt from A Doffed Coronet: A True Story "Give me no gems, dear heart, I pray, " My lady said. "What true love may Endure to touch them? Treacherous, cold, Reptilian things, with crime enrolled, Would they their histories betray! "Rubies are blood. Can aught allay Those evil fires that day by day Bum in the opal's heart of gold? Give me no gems! "Emeralds are eyes of hate, men say, There's dull revenge in sapphires, gray Sad ghosts would whisper from the mould The pearl's white pestilence, and hold The diamond crafty scheming. Nay, Give me no gems!" M. M. The day was drawing to a close, and the golden twilight fell with infinite softness over the Egyptian landscape. A great, round moon, suffused with the rosy blush of her awakening hour, rose above the palmtrees, casting her magic all over the gardens, where each branch, twig, and leaf was rapidly assuming a sparkle of liquid diamonds. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.