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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