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Ch. 10: The Famous Austrian Yellow Diamond

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THE AUSTRIAN YELLOW.                   229
interested in these sparkling pebbles to bear with equanimity a few technical details concern­ing their nature and the processes which they undergo before becoming ornaments for the crowns of kings or the brooches of queens.
That the diamond depends for its beauty al­most entirely upon the labor of man is suffi-
ciently known. The rough diamond is seldom a beautiful object, being usually coated with a greenish film which gives it the look of an ordi­nary pebble. It requires the eye of an adept to recognize any potentiality of sparkle in so dull a lump. The ordinary rock-crystal is in-
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