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Instead there were nice, kind men, who kept the hatching troughs clean and the water at the right temperature, and who gently stirred up the troutlets with a long goose-feather whenever too many of them crowded together in one corner, trying to get away from the hateful light. Under this sort of treatment most of the thirty million babies in the hatchery lived and thrived.
Manuel looked at her for a moment or two. She colored. He, sitting at the feet of weeping Jephthah, smiled. "Well," said Manuel, "I will come into England when you send me a goose-feather. So the affair is arranged." "Oh, you are all ice and iron!" she said, "and you care for nothing except your wet mud images, and I detest you!"
My face was burning from the snow and the wind, and I felt as though my whole body were basking in the warmth and growing weaker from it. "It's very nice here," I went on "warm, soft, snug... and goose-feather pens," I laughed, looking at the writing-table; "sand instead of blotting-paper." "Eh?
The very goose-feather in my hand seems to know instinctively the well-worn path of my imagination, the favourite theme of my song, and is with difficulty restrained from giving you a couple of paragraphs on the love-adventures of my compeers, the humble inmates of the farm-house and cottage; but the grave sons of science, ambition, or avarice, baptise these things by the name of follies.
Boston and Munich were the leaders forty years ago. They can't quite make out that they aren't now. It is too incredible that Art should leave her goose-feather bed and away to the wraggle-taggle business-men. And certainly, if Berlin and New York are more 'live, Boston and Munich are more themselves, less feverishly imitations of Paris.
"It is settled that, instead of ruling little Arles, you are to be Queen of England, and Lady of Ireland, and Duchess of Normandy and Aquitaine, and Countess of Anjou; that our token is to be a goose-feather; and that, I diffidently repeat, you are to get out of my light and interfere no longer with the discharge of my geas." "And what will you do?"
"But how can there be any magic in a goose-feather?" "There is this magic, that, possessing it, King Helmas has faith in, and has stopped bothering about, himself." "Is not to bother about yourself the highest wisdom?" "Oh, no! Oh, dear me, no! I merely said it is the highest of which man is capable."
So in the Christmas holidays they bring a tall burly squinting gray-haired warrior to King Ferdinand, in a lemon grove behind the royal palace. Here the sainted King, duly equipped with his halo and his goose-feather, was used to perform the lesser miracles on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
And this night it wuz so cool that a good woollen blanket and bedspread wuz none too much for comfort. And it wuz with a sithe of contentment that I lay down on my peaceful goose-feather pillow, and drawed the blankets up over my weary frame and sunk to sleep. I had been to sleep I know not how long when a angry, excited voice wakened me. It said, "Lay down, can't you!"
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