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Updated: May 17, 2025
Vincent one afternoon when she went into the nursery, where, at this time of day, Nelson was now generally to be found. "I don't know, mamma," said Rosy. Then, without saying any more about Bee, she went on eagerly, "Do look, mamma, at the lovely opera-cloak Nelson has made for my doll? It isn't quite ready there's a little white fluff " "Swansdown, Miss Rosy, darling," said Nelson.
Before Mellen had recovered from the shock sufficiently to be at all composed, Elsie was dressed and lying on the sofa in her own room, quite restored, with the exception of her unusual pallor. She had been wrapped in a rose-colored morning robe, trimmed with swansdown, and lay in delicate relief on the blue couch of her boudoir.
Manella's eyes grew darker than ever in the effort to explain her thought. "I do not know" she said, hesitatingly "But once here in this garden we found a wonderful butterfly with white wings all white, and it was resting on a scarlet flower. We all went out to look at it, because it was unlike any other butterfly we had ever seen, its wings were like velvet or swansdown.
Really, seeing them thus face to face, he cold and calm, stretched out in his armchair, with his hands in the pockets of his gray swansdown waistcoat, she carefully choosing her words, as if each of them might condemn or absolve her, you would never have said that it was a child before her grandfather, but an accused person before an examining magistrate.
For some reason or another it has been decided that a baby girl is to be given to a man, perhaps because he has been kind to her mother, perhaps she is owed to his kin by her own; any way the granny of the baby girl puts feathers, white swansdown, on the baby's head, and takes her over to the man when she is about a month old.
As we were going away, my father leading me by the hand, we found the Duchesse de Guise, Mademoiselle Mars, panting, and wrapped in a rose- coloured satin cloak lined with swansdown, waiting for the compliments which my father showered on her. She had not impressed me nearly so much as the page in violet.
While we sat, we devoured the landscape, the twelve glaciers spreading around us their carpet of swansdown and ermine, sinking into crevasses of a magical transparency, and raising their blocks, shaped into needles, or into Gothic steeples with pierced arches. The architecture of the glacier is marvelous. Its decorations are the decorations of fairyland.
Her hoofs made music on the hard road for another two, and then were assourdi by a swansdown coverlid of large snowflakes that disappointed the day's hopes of being fine, and made her sulky with the sun, extinguishing his light. The gig drew up at Strides Cottage in a whitening world, and Tom Kettering had to button up the seats under their oilskin passenger-cases, in anticipation of a long wait.
Bywank, said Rollo, looking as if his recollections in that quarter were pleasant 'which were not as soft as swansdown. But here we are coming to Moscheloo. How much do you know about fishing? 'Rather less than I do about anything else. O, I remember Mrs. Bywank said she used to know you. 'Mrs. Bywank is an old friend. In the times when I had, practically, two guardians though only Dr.
For, if you please, she was dressed out like a lady, in a gown of pale blue satin trimmed with swansdown a low-necked gown, too, though she had flung a white shawl over her shoulders. Imagine this and the flood of blue light around us, and you will hardly wonder that, half-way up the ladder, I paused to take breath.
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