Chap.

 1        2|       out, Mme Lerat threw down diamonds.~The bell began again, and
 2        4|      Mignon spoke of the shah’s diamonds. He wore a tunic entirely
 3        8|    women who were wearing their diamonds. Under the influence of
 4        9|   should give you carriages and diamonds and dresses!”~At each successive
 5        9| carriages there?”~“Yes.”~“Lace? Diamonds?”~“Yes.”~“Oh, how good you
 6       10|         Laure’s, she donned her diamonds and occasionally brought
 7       11|     yellow and was covered with diamonds from waist to hat. The banker,
 8       11|     hotel bill, of a handful of diamonds cast on the fire during
 9       12|     here; she’s wearing all her diamonds.”~For a moment or two they
10       13|    among the servants. When her diamonds had been stolen Victorine
11       14|   mistress of a prince, and her diamonds were mentioned. All the
12       14|     shone like day. Cascades of diamonds were flowing down; strings
13       14|     discussing the dead woman’s diamonds in low tones. Well, did
14       14|         they really exist—those diamonds? Nobody had seen them; it