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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Court Life in China by Isaac Taylor Headland: make more from it in that way, only I dislike to spoil the ring."
The Empress Dowager during her late years, and many of the ladies
and gentlemen of the more progressive type, affected, whether
genuinely or not, an appreciation of the diamond as a piece of
jewelry, especially in the form of rings, though coloured stones,
polished, but not cut, have always been more popular with the
Chinese. The turquoise, the emerald, the sapphire, the ruby and
the other precious stones with colour have, therefore, always
graced the tables of the bazars in the capital, while the diamond
until very recently was relegated to the point of the tinker's
drill.
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