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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas: the jeweler mentioned. "The ruby necklace?" she said.
"Are they balas-rubies, madame?"
"Here they are."
"They are beautiful -- magnificent. I did not know that your
ladyship had these stones."
"What is their value?"
"Two hundred thousand francs. The center one is alone worth
a hundred thousand."
"I thought so," said the marquise. "As for diamonds, I have
them in numbers; rings, necklaces, sprigs, earrings, clasps.
Tell me their value, M. Faucheux."
Ten Years Later | 
