The shelves were full of silver and golden bells.

There were big bronze bells marked with the Florentine lily; bells of the Renaissance, representing a lady wearing a white gown; bells of the dead, decorated with tears and bones; bells covered with symbolical animals and leaves, which had rung in the churches in the time of St.Louis; table-bells of the seventeenth century, having a statuette for a handle; the flat, clear cow-bells of the Ruth Valley; Hindu bells; Chinese bells formed like cylinders--they had come from all countries and all times, at the magic call of little Miss Bell.
"You look at my speaking arms," she said to Madame Martin.

"I think that all these Misses Bell are pleased to be here, and I should not be astonished if some day they all began to sing together.

But you must not admire them all equally.

Reserve your purest and most fervent praise for this one." And striking with her finger a dark, bare bell which gave a faint sound: "This one," she said, "is a holy village-bell of the fifth century.