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 for a like purpose . '' `` How , fellow ? '' exclaimed His Lordship , in surprise . `` What castle-hall hast thou to hang it in ? '' `` No castle , '' replied Matthew , `` but as neat a cottage as any within sight of the Crystal Hills . Ye must know , friends , that Hannah and I , being wedded the last week , have taken up the search of the Great Carbuncle because we shall need its light in the long winter evenings and it will be such a pretty thing to show the neighbors when they visit us ! It will shine through the house , so that we may pick up a pin in any corner , and will set all the windows a-glowing as if there were a great fire of pine-knots in the chimney . And then how pleasant , when we awake in the night , to be able to see one another 's faces ! '' There was a general smile among the adventurers at the simplicity of the young couple 's project in regard to this wondrous and invaluable stone , with which the greatest monarch on earth might have been proud to adorn his palace .
Especially the man with spectacles , who had sneered XXXXX all the company in turn , now twisted his visage into such an expression of ill-natured mirth that Matthew asked him rather peevishly what he himself meant to do with the Great Carbuncle .
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