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These were dished up on a plate of blue enamel , and it was from the GREAT HOGGARTY DIAMOND -LRB- as we called it in the family -RRB- that the collection of hairs in question seemed as it were to spring . My aunt , I need not say , is rich ; and I thought I might be her heir as well as another . During my month 's holiday , she was particularly pleased with me ; made me drink tea with her often -LRB- though there was a certain person in the village with whom on those golden summer evenings I should have liked to have taken a stroll in the hayfields -RRB- ; promised every time I drank her bohea to do something handsome for me when I went back to town , -- nay , three or four times had me to dinner at three , and to whist or cribbage afterwards . I did not care for the cards ; for though we always played seven hours on a stretch , and I always lost , my losings were never more than nineteenpence a night : but there was some infernal sour black-currant wine , that the old lady always produced at dinner , and with the tray at ten o'clock , and which I dared not refuse ; though upon my word and honour it made me very unwell . Well , I thought after all this obsequiousness on my part , and my aunt 's repeated promises , that the old lady would at least make me a present of a score of guineas -LRB- of which she had a power in the drawer -RRB- ; and so convinced was I that some such present was intended for me , that a young lady by the name of Miss Mary Smith , with whom I had conversed on the subject , actually netted me a little green silk purse , which she gave me -LRB- behind Hicks 's hayrick , as you turn to the right up Churchyard Lane -RRB- -- which she gave me , I say , wrapped up in a bit of silver paper . There was something in the purse , too , if the truth must be known . First there was a thick curl of the glossiest blackest hair you ever saw in your life , and next there was threepence : that is to say , the half of a silver sixpence hanging by a little necklace of blue riband .