The Half-Moon Girl, or the Rajah's Daughter (Classic Reprint)

Brunei, who had come from the Pontianak river, had found a diamond almost as valuable as the one possessed by old Rajah Sandag, which was as large as an owls egg, and worth more money than Songs imagination could compass. She was thinking about that diamond as she stood on the steps of the gold-worker shouse, and telling herself how much she would like to get a sight of it. Once, ever so long ago, she had seen a diamond, a small one not bigger than a durian seed, and it had sparkled so much that she thought it must be a star which had tumbled down from the dark vault of the night sky: and if a little diamond could make such a glittering show, the larger one must be a sight worth seeing. Song had seen the man on board a Bugis junk, as she rowed her own small boat up the river, and she was surprised that his face wore such an anxious, discontented expression; surely if the possession of so much wealth could not make a man happy, he must be a very poor creature indeed.
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