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Ch. 1: Introductory to Pearls

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CHAPTER I.
Introductory.
" Errors like straws upon the surface flow, He who would search for Pearls must dive below."
Dryden.
HERE is perhaps, no instinct implanted in the human breast more powerful than the love of admiration ; there is certainly none more ancient and universal. It is a passion more or less strongly developed in every one of us—in the savage who rejoices in khis tattooing, and barters his gold for beads and ostrich feathers ; in the Red Indian, who regards the ring in his nose as the highest emblem of nobility ; and equally in the fashionable lady, arrayed in all the beautiful creations of Parisian millinery.
To furnish becoming material wherewith to
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