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“Wonderful, wonderful words,” he said ecstatically. “To say that I feel the same about you, Stella, would truly be putting it mildly. So we'll go into that thoroughly in a little while.”
“Anything you say, Edgar,” she smiled with her eyes, then looked down at the jade items. “Exquisite is not even the word to adequately describe the beauty of this green magnificence,” she sighed rapturously. “I guess I was born to love jade.” As her eyes went round and round the jade pieces, they kept going back to the jade eardrops. Then she was finally moved to say, “May I hold them up, Edgar?”
