In the first place, she disposed of every superfluous garb and trinket She reduced her wardrobe to the plainest and cheapest establishment.
First, that they should leave his house within a week, and secondly, that they should put into his hands some trinket or movable, equal in value to the sum demanded, which should be kept by him as a pledge.
He fumbled in his pockets for some trinketto appease the suspicious chief.
Reluctantly he had unclosed the cold, stiff fingers from the slender string, and fastened the trinket around his own neck as the best place where it could be safely guarded.
When thetrinket reached him, his satisfaction was quite childish.
I determined to wire to him at once, and had written out a message when the second mystery in the history of the trinket began to unfold itself.
Soon after I received a letter in Eugenio's handwriting informing me that the trinket he enclosed would be to me an evidence that his beloved brother Celestino was dead.
But could she have flown with all the speed of all the birds of air, it was yet indispensable to follow out the clue she had already obtained in the possession of the trinket that so lately belonged to Sarchedon.
Did he buy you with a trinket and cast you aside in the desert, and will nothing force him back to your arms save a decree of the king?
In her opinion the trinket offered almost conclusive proof that the bridegroom had visited the locality.
It is about a little Italian trinket which I am told he displayed to the ladies yesterday afternoon.
When he last looked at it he noticed that the fastening was a trifle slack and, though he handed the trinket back, he told her distinctly that she was not to wear it till it had been either to Tiffany's or Starr's.
With no thought of the danger involved, he placed the trinket on a high shelf in the cabinet, and went out with the rest.
This trinket may have adorned the bosom of a Borgia or flashed from the arm of some great Venetian lady as she flourished her fan between her embittered heart and the object of her wrath or jealousy.
It's a little thing, a trinket that she loved, but I wanted it.
You're a liar and a hundred per cent bigger one over that little trinket of a box than if the stakes had been bigger.
A trinketor two up his sleeve gives a fellow a right to ring his own door bell.
She rang the bell, and the maid who had given her the trinket came.
Lydia, remembering the "X" on the trinket that had been found in her bed.
General Vernon was a widower, and this costly trinket was intended as a present to his only child, a daughter, who had lately married a wealthy baronet.
The trinket passed from hand to hand, and was greatly admired by the guests; then the conversation turned on other topics, and many subjects were discussed, until they adjourned to the drawing-room to take coffee.
He had meant the trinket as a return for his dinners.
Pons to give the old trinket to, and they make very pretty new ones nowadays; you can buy miracles of painting on vellum cheaply enough.
Evidently in her opinion the trinket was an old-fashioned thing.
He held out the ape-head, and when Joseph could see nothing save the face of David, he pushed the trinket back toward the huge man.
The glance of the huge man, which had hitherto wandered from the trinket to Connor's face, now steadied brightly upon the latter.
He brought his story to an end by depositing the trinket before the ancient man and then stood back, his face still working, and waited with every show of confident curiosity.
That little trinket had been the entering wedge through which he had worked his way into the Garden and started on the road to fortune.
Then snatching rather than taking the trinketfrom her hand, he said, "That is no place for this.
She'd better have brought the trinket to me, for I'd gladly have been the purchaser, for more even than she got by it.
O man of many years, that still should'st wear The trinket round the neck thy childhood bare!
The novelty of Trinket Auctions soon wore off, and then another pastime, under the name of Loo, was introduced.
In unfolding one of the papers he came upon the gold trinket mentioned by his benefactor.
The trinket was laid down and the manuscript resumed, of whose contents as much as is important to our narrative has already been communicated to the reader.
What was the use of wishing that you might give such a trinket to your lady love if you hadn't the money to pay for it?
There was a reward offered for the recovery of the trinket of no less than three guineas.
She thought how acceptable it would be, and wished that the lost trinket might come in her way.
I had neither trinket nor coin to stimulate the treachery of others.
Not a single relic or trinket in my possession constituted a memorial of my family.
Did Armida possess any trinket in the form of a little enameled cross--like a miniature cross of cavaliere?
Perhaps this trinket will bring it back to you, my lady," and taking the snake-surrounded ruby heart, I proffered it to her with another bow.
Master Grimmer, or Hastings, you shall hear from me, unless I can do my business otherwise, and for the trinket send me a note at your leisure.
Verily," he muttered, "I would have of thee yon trinket from thy bosom.
She held in her hand an oblong silver trinket not larger than a card-case.
You naturally wonder, Miss Hollister, how I found this trinket so readily.
The book was not in her hands nor in sight anywhere, but I felt that I was on the right track, and that the littletrinket had to do with her plight and her compact with her aunt.
Sir Florian, in putting the trinket into her hands, had explained to her that it was very valuable, and that she was to regard it as her own peculiar property.
And your husband gave it you just as another man gives a trinket that costs ten shillings!
It would be a very harsh measure, on the part of the Eustace family and of Mr. Camperdown, to demand from her the surrender of any trinket which her late husband might have given her in the manner she had described.
And he was, too, better alive to the importance of the value of the trinket than John Eustace, though not so keenly as was Mr. Camperdown.
They had been married on the 5th of September; and by the jewellers' books it was hard to tell whether the trinket had been given up to Sir Florian on the 4th or 24th of September.
