But while she said it, Pearl laughed, and began to dance up and down with the humoursome gesticulation of a little imp, whose next freak might be to fly up the chimney.
Nor did she put the question altogether idly, but, for the moment, with a portion of genuine earnestness; for, such was Pearl's wonderful intelligence, that her mother half doubted whether she were not acquainted with the secret spell of her existence, and might not now reveal herself.
"Yes; I am little Pearl!" repeated the child, continuing her antics.
Thou art no Pearl of mine!" said the mother half playfully; for it was often the case that a sportive impulse came over her in the midst of her deepest suffering.
Tell me!" repeated Pearl, no longer seriously, but laughing and capering about the floor.
"The price of these pearls varies according to their size?" asked Conseil.
The most beautiful are called virgin pearls, or paragons.
He had been robbed of his pearl. In place of the house, he had paid a debt.
He knew I had the pearl. You heard him yourself ask to see it.
"If you had done as I said," charged Tefara, for the thousandth time, "and hidden the pearl and told no one, you would have it now."
Raoul told me today that if you had not sold the pearl to Toriki--"
And, in an instant, Raffles had found the right one, had bitten out the bullet, and placed the emperor's
pearl with a flourish in the centre of the table.