Excerpt from Polished Ebony But all of her passionate love for the ring could not emancipate Elzevir from her cardinal weak ness. She was careless. For instance, she had for months been cognizant of the fact that one of the prongs was badly worn and that there was grave danger of some day losing the stone. For months she had conscientiously meant to see a jeweller and have a new prong installed - but a thousand and one things had prevented.

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