" Romans and Greeks, but especially the Greeks, used to cut "cameos" from the onyx-stone.

Of course I want the thief caught, if possible, and properly punished; but still more I want the cameo.

One of these men is Hahn, the traveling agent who sold him the cameo.

Even if I confided in Lord Stanway privately, returned his money, and destroyed the cameo, what then?

Notwithstanding this diversity of design, the tomb of Shekh Selim, of which I have attempted to give you an idea, is an ideal of perfect harmony, and every stroke of the chisel was as precise as if the artist had been engraving a cameo.

He examined the cameo several times before I bought it, and made several high offersappeared, in fact, very anxious indeed to get it.

I want you, if you can, to approach the matter entirely from my point of viewyour sole object being to find the cameo.

I knew enough of your reputation to know that you would never incur the scandal of a great theft at your place for the sake of getting the cameo for yourself, when you might have kept it in the beginning, with no trouble and mystery.

The marquis kept the cameo at his town house for a few days, showing it to his friends, and then returned it to Mr. Claridge to be finally and carefully cleaned before passing into the national collection.

He had kept both well for two centuries, and when the heart crumbled in dust it took its secret with it, leaving only the cameo to bewilder conjecture.

" "Then I take it, Lord Stanway," Hewitt observed, "that you much prefer the cameo to the money?" "Certainly.

XX., for his model; and he produced a beautiful cameo, of a less size, of which the ground was a most delicate white, but the Negro, who was seen imploring compassion in the middle of it, was in his own native colour.

With the police on the one hand and Mr. Hewitt on the other we shall certainly recover that cameo, if it is to be recovered, I think.

Père François Xavier had replaced the cameo on the Virgin's breast before he went; it was a safer place than the vault of a bank would have been, had such a thing existed in the country.

Lastly, Mr. Woollett is a gentleman of the most honorable record, but a perfectly rabid collector, who had made every effort to secure the cameo before you bought it; who, moreover, could have seen Mr. Claridge working in his back room, and who has perfectly easy access to Mr. Claridge's roof.

Honey-bud, you are all rose colour to-day," said Celia Craig, smiling; and, on impulse, unpinned the pink-and-white cameo from her own throat and fastened it to Ailsa's breast.

In one word, I will not accept the cameo, unless you give me a promise under your hand that it shall be the last present you send me.

YONGE, CHARLOTTE MARY, popular novelist, born at Otterbourne, Hants; has written "Cameos of History of England," "Landmarks of History," &c.; has edited the Monthly Packet for 30 years; b. 1823.

I felt as sure as I possibly could feel that I had bought one of the finest, if not actually the finest, cameos known to exist.

So these early workers were like men engaged in carving a perfect cameo from the reverse side.