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Ch. 7: Turquoises Paris London

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Turquoises: Taris—London—Romance          65
tzigane himself, or even Madame "X", to enter the story again with dramatic effect. "Not so," said I. "What more do you want? To me the real personages in the drama were the turquoises, and there they were once more. What is more interesting, unique and beautiful—gems, or common­place stock characters like the Betrayed Husband, the For­saken Wife, the Guilty Pair? Any average novelist can do that sort of thing on his head. But for true romance, give me the turquoises and the strange coincidence that brought them into my life again on the same day."
That is why, when I read the scientist's description of turquoise—that it is a chemical combination of hydrous aluminium phosphate, coloured with copper phosphate— I feel I am the richer for my acquaintance with the stone than the man in the laboratory with his retort.
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