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Updated: June 15, 2025
Alice, get your play-hood; this handkerchief is all wet; and, Maud, bring the old chinchilla tippet. The children ran, and in a minute there were lovely blue mittens on the red hands, a warm hood over the black braids, and a soft 'pussy' round the sore throat. 'Ah! so kind, so very kind!
And in spirit they were what they seemed: such a wild, joyous, frolicsome spirit, with such grace and fleetness, one does not look for in human beings, but only in birds or in some small bird-like volatile mammal a squirrel or a spider-monkey of the tropical forest, or the chinchilla of the desolate mountain slopes; the swiftest, wildest, loveliest, most airy, and most vocal of small beauties."
"And houses, and books, and pictures," said Miss Cardigan, looking around her. "My lamb, let us go to the Bible again. That says, 'whether ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God. So I suppose we must buy cloaks and bonnets on the same principle." I turned this over in mind. Had I done this, when I was choosing my chinchilla cap and grey cloak?
Philippa entered, a few minutes later, her eyes and cheeks brilliant with the brisk exercise she had been taking, her slim figure most becomingly arrayed in grey cloth and chinchilla. "I lost Helen in Harrod's," she announced, "but I know she's lunching with friends, so it really doesn't matter. You'll have to take care of me, Mr. Lessingham, until the train goes, if you will."
Tristram was surprised at this and he longed to ask her where she had been, but she did not tell him; she just said, "What time do we arrive at your uncle's? Is it five or six?" "It only takes three hours. We shall be in about five. And, Zara, I want you to wear the sable coat. I think it suits you better than the chinchilla you had when we left." A little pink came into her cheeks.
She pulled herself together. "I was thinking, Streff, just now when I said I hated the very sound of pearls and chinchilla how impossible it was that you should believe me; in fact, what a blunder I'd made in saying it." He smiled. "Because it was what so many other women might be likely to say so awfully unoriginal, in fact?" She laughed for sheer joy at his insight.
However, my son William must have knowed the very man afore us didn't ye, Billy, afore ye left Norcombe?" "No, 'twas Andrew." said Jacob's son Billy, a child of forty, or thereabouts, who manifested the peculiarity of possessing a cheerful soul in a gloomy body, and whose whiskers were assuming a chinchilla shade here and there.
"So it would, dear!" "And, you see, I've got the chinchilla." "Then have the red. Why not?" "Well, there is the hat I'm thinking of." "You haven't anything else you could wear with that?" "Nothing at all, and it would go so BEAUTIFULLY with the grey. Yes, I think I'll have the grey. It's always a safe colour grey." "Fourteen yards I think you said, madam?"
Nearly related to it, and inhabiting the same region, is the chinchilla a pretty little creature, rather larger than a squirrel, with great brilliant eyes, an erect tail, strong bristles on the upper lip, and rounded, almost naked ears. Its beautifully soft fur is much valued by ladies in Europe.
She ran. And after her came the pack in full cry. Across great rooms, lit by hanging lamps, scented with brasiers of perfumed wood, she fled, slipping upon chinchilla rug or glaring monstrous hearthrug of Berlin wool, in her desperate haste to quit the house. Out into the air she must get; under the trees in the garden; under the moon; down the broad paths to the wall at the end.
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