If any of ye have a wiser plan , let him expound it . '' `` That have I , thou sordid man ! '' exclaimed the poet . `` Dost thou desire nothing brighter than gold , that thou wouldst transmute all this ethereal lustre into such dross as thou wallowest in already ? For myself , hiding the jewel under my cloak , I shall hie me back to my attic-chamber in one of the darksome alleys of London . There night and day will I gaze upon it . My soul shall drink its radiance ; it shall be diffused throughout my intellectual powers and gleam brightly in every line of poesy that I indite . Thus long ages after I am gone the splendor of the Great Carbuncle will blaze around my name . '' `` Well said , Master Poet ! '' cried he of the spectacles . `` Hide it under thy cloak , sayest thou ? Why , it will gleam through the holes and make thee look like a jack-o ' - lantern ! '' `` To think , '' ejaculated the lord De Vere , rather to himself than his companions , the best of whom he held utterly unworthy of his intercourse -- `` to think that a fellow in a tattered cloak should talk of conveying the Great Carbuncle to a garret in Grubb street ! Have not I resolved within myself that the whole earth contains no fitter ornament for the great hall of my ancestral castle ? There shall it flame for ages , making a noonday of midnight , glittering on the suits of armor , the banners and escutcheons , that hang around the wall , and keeping bright the memory of heroes . Wherefore have all other adventurers sought the prize in vain but that I might win it and make it a symbol of the glories of our lofty line ? And never on the diadem of the White Mountains did the Great Carbuncle hold a place half so honored as is reserved for it in the hall of the De Veres . '' `` It is a noble thought , '' said the cynic , with an obsequious sneer . `` Yet , might I presume to say so , the gem would make a rare sepulchral lamp , and would display the glories of Your Lordship 's progenitors more truly in the ancestral vault than in the castle-hall . '' `` Nay , forsooth , '' observed Matthew , the young rustic , who sat hand in hand with his bride , `` the gentleman has bethought himself of a profitable use for this bright stone .
Hannah here and I are seeking it XXXXX a like purpose . ''
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