YOURS WITH ALL MY HEART 



years. I wouldn't change it for the biggest 

 diamond! I wonder what its history was 

 before you took it from Metzger, the Jew? 

 How sadly the owner must have felt to part 

 with it! Who knows how many lives it may 

 have brightened ? I must always wear it, 

 and never lose a stone from out it!' and 

 mamma looked into the blue depths of the 

 mysterious gem, and turned it lovingly till 

 I reached out and kissed it again, in the 

 blessed moment of my adoption! 



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