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Ch. 3: Antiquity of the Pearl

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ANTIQUITY OF THE PEARL
How long the pearl has been used as a jewel is unknown. It is seen all through the pages of history, from the long ago days when records were inscribed on the leaves of plants, to the rapid-fire prints of to-day, which unceasingly scatter to myriads the knowledge of things as they occur.
Back of history, pearls loom everywhere in the mists of tradition like delicate but imperish­able orbs of beauty set in the smoulder of burned out days and passions. And wherever their tranquil light attracts the eye of imagination, the ghosts of the great are seen, for pearls lie in the hair of royalty and clasp the fair necks of Queens. Upon them shine the eyes of turbanned princes who valued them above the blood and life of thousands of subjects. Shades of imperious fingers, long since fallen "to the elements, toy with them: they deck the spec­tral gatherings of the mighty in all lands and ages, and there is no dream of song or story
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