MDMD (6)--Jenkin's Ear-ring

[Doug Millison]

MDMD (6)
177--Jenkin's Ear-Ring:  "Aye, 'twas never Mr. J.'s Ear the Spaniard was
after, but the great Ruby in it. For one silver shilling, you may view this
remarkable Jewel, red as a wound, pluck'd from the Navel of an importantly
connected Nautch-Dancer, by a Mate off a Coaster, who should've known
better....absorbing in its Passage, and bearing onward, one Episode after
another, the brutal and dishonorable Tale of Bengal and the Carnatic, in
the Days of the Company...."

This ear-rings a bell, an interesting parallel to the passage in V, when
Fausto watches the children disassemble the Bad Priest:  "At her navel was
a star sapphire. The boy with the knife picked at the stone. It would not
come way. He dug in with the point of the bayonet, working for a few
minutes before he was able to bring out the sapphire. Blood had begun to
well in its place."

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