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Question
Answer the following question:
How beautiful was the gold watch chain? Would you have liked to own it?
Solution
A platinum fob chain for Jim's gold watch, which was chaste in its design and appeared precious by its substance alone rather than its decoration, was Della's gift to Jim. Anybody would have wanted to own the chain since it was so lovely.
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