These are what I like--odd things, old things, things picked up in odd corners of the world, things that have a story and a meaning.

Biddy got me these turquoises in Tibet: that is a devil charm: isn't that jade delicious?
I think I like Chinese things best of all." She threw a string of cloudy amber round Jean's neck and cried, "My dear, how it becomes you.

It brings out all the golden lights in your hair and eyes." Jean sat forward in her chair and looked at her reflection in the glass with a pleased smile.
"I do like dressing-up," she confessed.

"Pretty things are a great temptation to me.

I'm afraid if I had money I would spend a lot in adorning my vile body." "I simply don't know," said Pamela, "how people who don't care for clothes get through their lives.