They looked in the folds of her dress, in the folds of her cloak, everywhere. But they couldn't find it.
“Are you sure you still had it on when you left the hall?” he asked.
“Yes, I touched it in the hall at the Ministry ”.
“But if you had lost it in the street we would have heard it fall. It must be in the cab.”
“Yes. That's probably it. Did you take his number?”
“No.” He answered nonchalantly.
They stared at each other, stunned. At last Loisel put his clothes over again. “I’m going back,” he said, “Over the whole route we walked, and see if I can find it.”
He left. She remained in her ball dress all night, her mind blank. Her husband returned at about seven o’clock. He had found nothing.
He went to the police, to the newspapers to offer a reward, to the cab companies, everywhere the tiniest glimmer of hope led him.
She waited all day despair at this frightful disaster.
Loisel returned in the evening, a hallow, pale figure; he had found nothing. “You must write a letter to your friend,” he said, “tell her you have broken the clasp of her necklace and that you're having it mended. It will give us time to look some more.”
She wrote as he dictated.
At the end of one week, they had lost all hope. And Loisel, who suddenly looked aged, declared, “We must consider how to replace the jewel.”
And so, they went from one jeweller, looking for a necklace like the other one, consulting their memories, both sick with grief and anguish.
In a shop at the Palais Royal, they found a string of diamonds which seemed to be exactly what they were looking for. It was worth forty thousand francs. They could have it for thirty-six thousand.
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A/N: I'm extremely sorryyyyyy for not updating from which seems like forever. Kind of got busy with school stuffs!!!!! And especially Maths!!!!! Ughhhhh!!!! How badly I hate it!!!! Ok.... So I will stop my rantings. So how's the chapter? (I know its too short but I can't help it, I wonder how some author's write sooo big chapters And here I am, I can't even write 300 words).
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The necklace
HumorA girl who has over confidence that she deserves the best always get or have to go through the worst.
