a birthday present of jewellery

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'When we were at Vienna her twentieth birthday occurred, and as she was very fond of ornaments, we all took the opportunity of the splendid jewellers' shops in that Teutonic Paris to purchase her a birthday present of jewellery. Mine, naturally, was the least expensive; it was an opal ring'the opal was my favorite stone, because it seems to blush and turn pale as if it had a soul.'

'George Eliot, The Lifted Veil, 1859.

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