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Updated: June 19, 2025
She knew what it meant, and her eyes were fastened upon me with a heart-breaking expression. That mockery of a meal over, she permitted me to lay her down on the sofa, almost as submissively as a tired child, and to cover her with an eider-down quilt; for her malady made her shiver with its deadly coldness, while she could not bear any weight upon her.
And the six months' imprisonment hanging over him gained added terrors from his physical breakdown. Even on his eider-down bed he could not woo sleep how then on a prison pallet? When he started the Union he had imagined he could bring the Socialistic movement to a head in a year.
"Few of us at home can recognize the protecting value of this warm coverlet of snow. No eider-down in the cradle of an infant is tucked in more kindly than the sleeping-dress of winter about this feeble flower-life.
One stipulation, however, was made by the guide the money was to be paid to him every Saturday night, failing which, his engagement was at an end. The day of our departure was fixed. My uncle wished to hand the eider-down hunter an advance, but he refused in one emphatic word "Efter." Which being translated from Icelandic into plain English means "After."
In two corners were piles of innumerable cushions and pillows covered with a most delicate satin-like fabric, embroidered with gold, silver, and feathers, all soft as eider-down and of all shapes and sizes.
Miss Diana knelt beside the couch, comfortable as only old-fashioned couches know how to be. "Dear Christ," she cried, "I am thy follower and I have gone shod with velvet while thy feet were travel-stained, and I have slept upon eider-down while thou hadst not where to lay thine head!" She knelt on, motionless, until the twilight fell and the stars began to peep out in the sky.
In a fury a blind fury Leucha rushed to her bed, tore aside the eider-down, and tried to catch the wicked cat in order to fling her out of the window; but Hollyhock stood in the room. 'Don't, she said. 'Poor beastie! I put her there for fun for a bit of a lark. I'll take her now. Don't you touch my cat, or I 'll be at you.
There was no other furniture of any sort in the room. Four nice-looking Japanese girls brought us thick cotton quilts to sit upon, and braziers full of burning charcoal, to warm ourselves by. In the centre of the group another brazier was placed, protected by a square wooden grating, and over the whole they laid a large silk eider-down quilt, to retain the heat.
Hollyhock, prepared for all events, kept her door a little ajar, and wee Jean, being slightly, very slightly, disturbed by the noise in the room and the light which penetrated faintly under her eider-down quilt, purred in a louder and more satisfied manner than ever. She thought she might rise a trifle and begin to lap her cream. 'What can be the matter? said Lady Leucha.
Secondly, a white eider-down quilt at least, that was what it seemed like descended lightly as as an eider quilt, and as soundlessly, out of the blue-black sky, and covered the brown rat up.
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