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"Let's put the puff cover around us," and rolled up in the big down coverlet the girls dove into their bumpy stockings, exclaiming or laughing over the contents, for evidently the boys had been in the secret, for out of Peggy's came a little bronze cow and calf labeled "C. and S." "Now what in the world does C. and S. stand for, I wonder?" she said.
The smoke came curling up here and there through the sweet air of spring, a snowbird tripped along the white coverlet of the earth, and before a Calvary, I saw a peasant kneel and say an Ave as he went to market. There was springtime in the sun, in the smell of the air; springtime everywhere but in my heart, which was all winter. I seemed alone alone alone. I felt the tears start.
In his devouring mind's eye he pictured to himself every roasting-pig running about with a pudding in his belly, and an apple in his mouth; the pigeons were snugly put to bed in a comfortable pie, and tucked in with a coverlet of crust; the geese were swimming in their own gravy, and the ducks pairing cosily in dishes, like snug married couples, with a decent competency of onion-sauce.
The shutters lay partly open, as the valet had left them some hours before, on making the astounding discovery, which the partially admitted light revealed. The corpse lay in the silk-embroidered dressing gown, and other habiliments, which Sir Wynston had worn, while taking his ease in his chamber, on the preceding night. The coverlet was partially dragged over it.
The sweet quiet and rest of the night were inviting. He thought of the pattering of tiny feet upon his coverlet and wondered if the rats and mice would call again. He hoped that they would, for they too were his friends. But after supper another surprize and disappointment was awaiting him.
For the instant, in her surprise and agitation, she forgot herself, and lost that marvellous self-restraint which had held us so far apart. "Captain Wayne!" she cried, and her gloved hands fell instantly upon my own, where it rested without the coverlet. "You here, and wounded?" I smiled up at her, feeling now that my injuries were indeed trivial. "Somewhat weakened by loss of blood, Mrs.
On a warm green table, under a cheerful gas light, with brandy and whiskey and sweets and fruit to hand, with no trains or busses to catch, what wonder if the light-hearted assembly played far into the new day? Meanwhile the Redeemed Son slept peacefully in his crib with his legs curled up, and his little fists clenched beneath the coverlet. Moses Ansell married mainly because all men are mortal.
"Is that a dead man under the blue coverlet?" I asked with awe. "I suppose so," said Godfather Gilpin. "But why don't his friends go to the funeral?" I inquired. "He has no friends to follow him," said my godfather. "That is why he is being buried by the Brothers of Pity." I have changed my mind a great many times, since I can remember, about what I will be when I am grown up.
We knew everything in those days, we aimless knights-errant with dinner-pail and slate; the dry, frosty hollow where gentians bloom when the pride of the field is over, the woody slopes of the hepatica's awakening, under coverlet of withered leaves, and the sunny banks where violets love to live with their good gossip, the trembling anemone.
"Stephen Spike," resumed Jack, solemnly, "I am Mary Swash I am your wife!" Spike started in his bed; then he buried his face in the coverlet and he actually groaned. In bitterness of spirit the woman turned away and wept.
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