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With four left over from previous earnings, she had eleven. Five of this went to pay the regular installment on the clothes she had to buy. The next week she was even in greater feather. Now, only three dollars need be paid for room rent and five on her clothes. The rest she had for food and her own whims. "You'd better save a little for summer," cautioned Lola. "We'll probably close in May."
When I told him that I was so fond of staying indoors that I would never cross my threshold if Oliver didn't make me, he laughed and said that he wished I'd convert his wife to my way of thinking. Yet he seems to have the greatest admiration for her, and, do you know, I believe he even admires that red feather, though he doesn't approve of it.
But there was a dash of white at her throat and some white lilies of the valley in her bosom, and a white feather in her great black hat poised with a Gainsborough swagger on the mass of her bronze hair. "It's the spring," she added. "Yes," said I, "it's the spring." She approached me and brushed a few specks of dust from my shoulder. "You want a new suit of clothes, Simon."
"Red Feather Sioux chief he neber tell lie he speak wid single tongue he love white folks." "I counted five warriors with you; are they all you have?" "Dey all hab no more." Melville believed the Indian spoke the truth. "Where are the rest?" "Go down oder side Muddy Riber won't come here." Melville was inclined to credit this statement also.
Well, well!" says Manuel, "at any rate, to be a count is something, and it is better to ward a fine name than a parcel of pigs, though it appears the pigs are the more nourishing." In the mean while the King's heralds rode everywhither in fluted armor, to proclaim the fulfilment of the old prophecy as to the Archangel Oriphiel's feather.
I say, Pegtop, bring me my uniform that's right now my sword never mind the pantaloons, I want them to see that it's all fudge about the feather now my hat that's right now go before me, and fan me with the lid of that box of herrings." Pegtop did as he was bid, and Bangs followed him, affecting the most majestic walk and gravest look.
I noticed that they all went to roost just before totality. At the same time a slight wind arose, and at the moment of totality the atmosphere was filled with thistle-down and other light articles. I noticed one feather, whose weight was at least one hundred and fifty milligrams, rise perpendicularly to the top of the fence, where it floated away on the wind.
The sensation was delightful. He rode as gently as a feather floats, without any exertion at all on his own part; yet he moved so swiftly that he easily distanced a railway train that was speeding in the same direction. "This is great!" reflected the youth. "Here I am, traveling in fine style, without a penny to pay any one! And I've enough food to last me a month in my coat pocket.
Of course, we all have our falls now and then. But while they always strike on the hard ground, I've got a feather bed to fall on." When she reached Martha's and was ushered into the cool upstairs sitting room, in somehow ghastly contrast to the hot rooms where the young working people sweated and strained, the subject persisted in its hold on her thoughts.
The Prince of Bearne" it was a solace to the duke's heart, of which he never could be deprived, to call the king by that title "was at a window over the gate of St. Denis through which we took our departure. He was dressed in light grey, with a black hat surmounted by a great white feather. Our displayed standards rendered him no courteous salute as we passed." Here was another solace!
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