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Ch. 6: Pearls

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THE PEARL.                             187
work of great difficulty in engraving upon stone— the lovers are united by a string of pearls—emblem of conjugal bonds—by aid of which the god Hymen, bearing a torch, conducts them to the nuptial couch (Fig. 83).
A number of opinions have been expressed upon the origin of the pearl. The ancients poetically ascribed it to a drop of dew falling at morning or evening into the opened shell.
" Brighter the offspring of the morning dew, The evening yields a duskier birth to view."
It was once a common belief that the pearl was a morbid production of the animal. Above all, it has been thought that it originated in some foreign
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