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Chapter 10

The guests.

You'll meet none of them a second time, in my part of the story at any rate, with the exception of two.

Those two sat on either side of Miss Rachel, who, as queen of the day, was naturally the great attraction of the party.

On this occasion, she was more particularly the centre point towards which everybody's eyes were directed for,

to my ladies, secret annoyance.

She wore her wonderful birthday present, which eclipsed all the rest, the moonstone.

It was, without any setting, when it had been placed in her hands, but that universal genius, Mr. Franklin, had contrived,

with the help of his neat fingers and a little bit of silver wire, to fix it as a brooch in the bosom of her white dress.

Everybody wondered, at the prodigious size and beauty of the diamond, as a matter, of course.

But the only two of the company, who said anything out of the common way about it, were those two guests I have mentioned,

who sat by Miss Rachel in her right hand, and her left.

The guest on her left was Mr. Candy, our doctor at Frizzing Hall.

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