AS everyone knows, the late Lord Middlewick had a perfect craze for collecting rare gems and works of art; and, being a man of unbounded wealth, he was enabled to gratify his tastes to his heart’s content.
His cabinet of precious stones was considered to be unique in its way, and contained the very rarest specimens of the world’s gems, including some truly magnificent diamonds and pearls. His lordship, however, always considered that the collection was imperfect, owing to the absence of a good specimen of the very peculiar stone known generally as the cat’s-eye, on account of its close resemblance, both as regards colour and iridescence, to p***y’s optic. This gem seems to be peculiar to the island of Ceylon, but it is seldom that a really good specimen is discovered.
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