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She could only be guessed at in the mummy-like form extended, but not stretched, if you please, on the operating-table. Her face, all but a central oval, was held in a thin mask of kidskin, and her whole body, from neck to peeping pink toes, was wrapped closely in bandages soaked with cold cream.
He gave her the basket, and with it, wrapped in a piece of kidskin, some of the same powder with which he had doctored the fruits. "What shall I do with this?" she asked. "You must find means to sprinkle it upon your sister's food, and thereafter your husband shall come to hate even the sight of her." "But will he come to love me again?" Hokosa shrugged his shoulders.
In the hall, while passing a platter of figs, Foresto praised the new garment obsequiously. He murmured: "And what a fine skin it is made of! So soft, so delicate, so lustrous in its finish! Is it pigskin, master? Ah, no; it is finer than that. Kidskin? But a kid could not furnish a skin as large as this one.
I wore the gaudiest clothing I could find; tunics and cloaks of pure silk and of the brightest or most effeminate hues; crimson, emerald-green, peacock-green, grass-green, apple-green, sea-green, sapphire-blue, sky- blue, turquoise-blue, saffron, orange, amethystine, violet and any and every unusual tint; boots of glazed kidskin or of dull finish soft skin, of hues like my silk garments, always with the edges of the soles heavily gilded.
Close by me I placed my precious kidskin of much watered wine, I might say of water flavored with wine, so that it would keep cool in the thickest shade. The day was hot, clear and still and the rays of the sun fierce. The occasional slight breezes were very welcome.
It is said that to produce the very finest kidskin, the kids are fed on nothing but milk, are treated with the utmost gentleness, and are kept in coops or pens carefully made so that there shall be nothing to scratch their tender skins.
I'll tell the whole story!" The trap-door was replaced and we were again in complete darkness. He settled himself beside me in the straw. "No need to husband our provisions now," he said. "Neither of us will be left long in this hole. Let's comfort ourselves with food and wine." I felt inclined the same way and we munched and passed the kidskin back and forth.
"And how many rivets hast thou clenched upon the occasion with this hand," said the Count, catching hold of it, "which looks as if it had never been washed, save with milk of roses, and with this childish toy?" pointing to a hammer with ivory haft and silver head, which, stuck into a milk-white kidskin apron, the official wore as badges of his duty. The armourer fell back in some confusion.
Our best real kidskin comes from a certain part of France, where the climate seems to be just suited to the young kids, there is plenty of the food that they like, and, what is fully as important, they receive the best of care.
"Come, come, Master Holdenough," said the Mayor, "put us not to mutiny and cry Clubs. I tell you once more, we are not men of war or blood." "Not more than may be drawn by the point of a needle," said the preacher, scornfully. "Ye tailors of Woodstock! for what is a glover but a tailor working on kidskin?
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