she was looking splendidly , temeraire could not help but reluctantly acknowledge : besides the immense diamond upon her breast , which caught the light of the lamps , she wore also a sort of gauntlet upon each foreleg-talon-sheaths tipped in rubies , joined by delicate lacy chains of silver to broad cuffs set with diamonds , which were in turn joined to another set of cuffs above her elbow-joint set with sapphires , so that she wore the colors of the tricolor herself .