She brought Mrs. Poynsett a beautiful bouquet, for the elderly spinsters, she said, sat on the stairs and kept up a constant supply; and she had also some exquisite Genoese wire ornaments from Cecil's counter, and a set of studs from a tray of polished pebbles sent up from Vivian's favourite lapidary at Rockpier.

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"Ask him in," he said, for he recalled having given his address to a lapidary for the delivery of a purchase.

But he rose, just as the book told him to do, in all his beauty, and enunciated in the crystal tones he had learned during the last few weeks at Madam Winterbottom's school of acting and elocutionin syllables chiseled from the stone of eloquence by the lapidary of culture: "If Your Honor please, I move the cause of the People of the state of New York against Theophilus Higgleby, indicted for bigamy.