“Placed opposite the balances, it will keep his beloved in health and preserve her from despair,” said Suravia.
“Why sayest thou balances?” asked Kerœcia.
“Dost thou not see that the stones corresponded to the zodiac? The diamond blazes like the sun in a clear sky,” answered Suravia, pointing to the blue square.
“I have only eyes for this beautiful hyacinth in the opposite clasp. It looks as if smoke were rising from it. Now it glows like a burning coal,” cried Mineola.
“Cut deep in its smooth surface is a woman with her arms asunder, like a cross, and having a triangle on her head,” commented Kerœcia.
“The stone is in the house of the Lamb, the beginning and renewal time of Nature. Therefore, art thou given refreshing sleep and quick recovery from fatigue,” returned Mineola.
“The desire and thought of both is centered on the altar.”
Kerœcia was speaking to herself, and lightly touching the blocks with their intaglios marking the four cardinal points.
“Thou art right in adoring him,” declared Suravia, enthusiastically. “In the first block of gold is a sapphire, meaning that the language of this book is the same as that thy childhood knew; and the agate below it is thy birth-stone.”
“The emerald underneath both has a perfectly straight and smooth surface; so there shall be no darkening shadows thrown over thee,” said Mineola.