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And then Vixen knelt down by the arm-chair and tried to get upon intimate terms with the Persian. He was a serious-minded animal, and seemed inclined to resent her advances, so she left him in peace on his patchwork cushion, a relic of those earlier days when Miss Skipwith had squandered her precious hours on the feminine inanity of needle-work.

There was a door in this little hall, exactly opposite the top of the stair, and at each side of the door was an arm-chair, also all white, and with a white satin cushion instead of a seat. And on each of these chairs sat a most beautiful white cat. The only colour in the hall was the flash of their green eyes, as they turned them full on the two children. Jeanne crept a little closer to Hugh.

Ribs eight or nine in number, rounded, somewhat undulated, and bearing spine-tufts nearly 1 in. apart; each tuft contains about ten spines, which are almost equal in length, fine, stiff, brown, and persistent; there is a little cushion of white wool about the base of the spines.

Even the cushion on which a wealthy bride in New York was lately expected to kneel was so elaborately embroidered with pearls that she visibly hesitated to press it with her knee at the altar. Silver and gold services, too precious to be trusted to ordinary lock and key, are displayed at the wedding and immediately sent off to some convenient safe.

"Yes," Angelica answered; "leave me alone awhile." And the woman had tact enough to obey. Then Angelica got up, and went and knelt by the Tenor's empty chair, and laid her cheek against the cold cushion. "It isn't true, it isn't true, it isn't true," she wailed again and again, but it was long before she could think at all; and her dry eyes ached, for she had no more tears to shed.

On Sunday morning I found a bunch of them, done up after a well-known fashion, with dried maiden-hair as a background, laid beside the pulpit cushion. I had good reason to know from whence it came. I said to her when she waylaid me on my homeward course that the woman who cleaned the church would have to be reprimanded.

"Because we are artists, therefore brothers," explained Kano, in an encouraging voice. Tatsu frowned. "Who are you, and why have you sent for me?" "Do you inquire who I am?" said Kano, scarcely believing his ears. "It is what I asked." "I am Kano Indara." The old man folded his arms proudly, waiting for the effect. Tatsu moved impatiently upon his velvet cushion. "Of course I knew that.

This done, the lady returned to her own room, from which she emerged an hour later in a soft gray silk relieved by a film of old lace at her throat, blending into the tones of her gray hair brushed straight up from her forehead and worn high over a cushion, the whole topped by a tiny jewel which caught the light like a drop of dew.

At last she rose and took the sheaves of flowers from her maid; and standing on the platform she hesitated for a moment, then placed the roses to the right and left of the cushion on which the lovers' heads were resting, as if she wished to crown them with those blossoms, perfume their young brows with that sweet and powerful aroma.

He said that unless she took him now, she would never have the chance again; it was the last time he was going to ask her is that straight, Miss Mathers?" "Y-yes," sobbed Polly from the depths of her cushion. Terry proceeded with a fast broadening smile; it was evident that he enjoyed the recital.