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Alianora looked at what was in her hand, and saw it was a goose-feather, in nothing resembling the feather which, when she had fled in maidenly embarrassment from Manuel's over-friendly advances, she had plucked from the robe of the Apsarasas, and had dropped at Manuel's feet, in order that her father might be forced to proclaim this quest, and the winning of it might be predetermined.
Honest, honorable, hard-workin', gittin' up at five o'clock in the mornin', doin' a good day's work before lots of folks rises up from their goose-feather pillers. Fillin' up the day with duties performed to the best of his ability.
All being agreed, the Yule-log was stirred up into a blaze, which was duly fed with the goose-feather and the robe of the Apsarasas. Thereafter the trumpets sounded a fanfare, to proclaim that Raymond Bérenger's collops were cooked and peppered, his wine casks broached, and his puddings steaming.
I remember the day because the grass was green, but the air was full of those great "goose-feather" flakes of snow which sometimes fall in late May. I stayed home that summer of '55 and worked on the farm, and pored over my books when I had a chance.
At my feet Matthias dropped his burden, and the donor said: "There is a goose-feather bed and a pair of pillows, and I picked every feather of 'em off my geese; them two linen sheets and two pair of piller-cases done up with 'em I made myself. I've said all the hateful things I ever mean to." She held her hands out to us both, and we mingled our tears of gratitude with those that filled her eyes.
"As wisdom goes, here we have prudent men of business able to add two and two together, and justice may be out of hand distinguished from injustice by an impanelment of the nearest twelve fools. Here we have many Helmases a-cackling wisely under a goose-feather.
Obedient to his master's mandate, the falconer was collecting his discouraged followers, and whispering into their ears "Away, away tace is Latin for a candle never mind the good Knight's puritanism we will play the frolic out over a stand of double ale in Dame Martin the Brewster's barn-yard draw off, harp and tabor bagpipe and drum mum till you are out of the church-yard, then let the welkin ring again move on, wolf and bear keep the hind legs till you cross the kirk-stile, and then show yourselves beasts of mettle what devil sent him here to spoil our holiday! but anger him not, my hearts; his lance is no goose-feather, as Dan's ribs can tell."
The grasshoppers and butterflies scattered; the paper dried rapidly in the hot sun, as the kite lay on the grass while the string was fastened, Tizzy having the delightful task of rolling the ball along the grass to unwind enough for the first flight; and then, after Ned had thrown a stray goose-feather to make sure which way the wind blew, this being towards the tall poplars, Tizzy was set to hold up the kite as high as she could.
And then I went on to tell him how Josiah wanted to come there as senator, and what a dangerous place I had always heard Washington wuz, and how I had felt it was impossible for me to lay down on my goose-feather pillow at home, in peace and safety, while my pardner was a grapplin' with dangers of which I did not know the exact size and heft.
So it was that gray Manuel talked in a half voice, sitting there resplendently robed in gold and crimson, and twiddling between his fingers a goose-feather. "Yes," Niafer said, presently, "but, for my part, I think he plays very nicely indeed." Manuel gave an abrupt slight jerking of the head. Dom Manuel laughed.
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