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gutter! Despair ! The little fable ends nicely, as a little fable should, and there is joy all around.
The
person who gave the Demidoffs one hunÂdred thousand dollars for the
Sanci was Sir Jamsetjee Jeejeebhoy the great Bombay merÂchant and
millionaire. And thus after many wanderings the Sanci at length
returned to the Orient whence, to judge from its cutting, it had
originally come. However its stay in India was but brief. It came back
to Paris for the Exhibition of 1867, where it found itself once more
beneath the same roof as the Regent. It was nevertheless not in the
same show-case as that imperial exhibit, for it belonged to Messrs.
Bapst who were willing to sell it for the sum of one million of francs,
the exact amount at which it had been valued previous to the Revolution.
Some
one rich enough to buy it and fond enough of diamonds to spend such a
sum on a jewel was found again in India. This time it
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