Sentence:  ... did he imagine he could carry his <WSD>amassments</WSD> with him out of the world? Had he so loved the gems in his life as to dream he could illumine his tomb with them? 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  That which is amassed; a large quantity ("of" something).<ref>(Samuel Johnson), "(A Dictionary of the English Language)," London: W. Strahan, 1755: “A<small>MASMENT</small>. (...) A heap; an accumulation; a collection.”[https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=ucm.5326809190&view=1up&seq=127&size=150]</ref>