Go thou to bed, and see that the counterpane is drawn high over Cecil, for the howling of the wind promises a cold night.
I should lie awake and see bogies an thou didst not tuck in the counterpane about me with thine own hands.
She gave him one of her pillows, threw a part of the counterpane over him, and made him lie there, holding fast to his hand, afraid to be alone, even in her dreams.
Her husband unfolded the counterpane that was wrapped round Nettie's head; and there she was, looking very like her usual self, only exceedingly pale.
Mr. Mathieson took her to the bed and laid her gently down, removing the wet counterpane which was round her.
You know you wouldn't sleep under such a counterpane as that.
It is true she pulled the counterpane over her in case Mrs. Acheson or Belle should come into the room; but sleep was far from her wakeful eyes.
The fancy about the fairy ring on the counterpane was very nice, for she could think about it and "pertend" she saw the fairies dancing without getting out of her warm nest at the top of the bed at all.
Yes, the sunshine made the counterpanevery pretty.
The middle of the counterpane is done in knitting cord, No.
The centre of thecounterpane is made in diamonds, with small pieces at the edges, merely to fill in the parts where the diamonds leave spaces, and form the whole into a solid square.
When completed, the eyelet-hole border is again added all round, and the counterpane then only requires a deep open border.
For a large counterpane they may be considerably increased.
She shut herself in, took the counterpane off the bed, shook it with furious vigour, and even more vigourously still banged it against the end of the bedstead.
The evening cloak lay beside the yellow chiffon gown, carefully disposed on the bed, which had a lace counterpane over yellow satin.
The bedstead was brass, and there was a counterpane of white lace over yellow, the muslin curtains were tied back with great bows of yellow ribbon.
Four of the old hands thereupon produced a filthy counterpane of coarse cloth and stretched their victim upon it.
Then each took a corner, and raising it as high as they could reach, they let thecounterpane fall on the stone flooring with a horrible thud.
At last he sighed, drew up the counterpane round him and fell asleep.
Place the counterpane evenly and smoothly, tuck it under at the foot, turn its corners neatly, turn its upper edge under the upper edge of the blankets and fold the upper sheet down over the whole.
A heavy counterpane is uncomfortable at any time, and still more uncomfortable in sickness.
A counterpane should be wide enough to cover the sheets and blankets at the sides when the bed is open, and long enough to protect the bedding at the top and bottom.
The woman did inquire, and the very sound of her voice made the poor victim on the bed shake till the counterpane moved like snow disturbed by the wind.
He let the flowers fall to the counterpane with a low moan.
Trade has a fascination for me, and going transversely across the nine-mile-broad rough Gaboon estuary in an unfinished canoe with an inefficient counterpanesail has none; but I return duty bound to this unpleasant subject.
She groped about the counterpane and found her pencil, and went on writing.
For five minutes they were very quiet, she with her face buried in the counterpane as she prayed vaguely to herself and God and her father to help him.
Marvellously beautiful was the workmanship of the cradle, all inlaid with gold; no less so the velvet counterpane embroidered with beautiful golden leaves, and the silken and gold draperies trimmed with lace of priceless value.
She then divested the child of its gay trappings of velvet, and put them with the laces and counterpane into the gilded cradle, then kindling the fire she put them all in it.
I knelt down and prayed for my wife and child, with my head upon the white counterpane that covered them.
With one stride he was in his cabin and had snatched a counterpane from his bed, in two bounds he was over the rail on the bank and running swiftly in the direction the fugitive had taken.
He bundled her in, counterpane enmeshed and reduced to helpless silence, slammed the door and leant panting against the cabin, mopping his brow.
Too many clothes, and the counterpane stripped back.
Not enough: his uncle always said that warmth was conducive to sleep, and the counterpane pulled up.
He drew a long sigh of relief, and slid his hand along the counterpane toward hers.
For a moment he thought that he felt it in his fingers, all feathery and soft and warm, and then the voice of the Counterpane Fairy cried, "Take care!
Yis," said the little old woman, smiling, and her smile was just like the smile of the Counterpane Fairy.
Teddy, but when she raised her head and looked at him he saw that it was not the Counterpane Fairy after all, but an old Italian woman carrying a basket on her arm.
He was thinking of her so hard that it did not surprise him at all to hear her little thin voice just back of the counterpane hill.
The fairy was just starting down the counterpane hill.
Teddy dropped the bird as though it had burned him, and there it was not a bird at all, but the Counterpane Fairy, who stood smoothing down her cloak and frowning.
Once he turned and waved his hand to the Counterpane Fairy in the golden garden far below.
The Counterpane Fairy said nothing until she had sat down on top of his knees for a while and caught her breath, and then she said: "Well, well!
Teddy began to stare at the green square so hard that he scarcely winked, but he heard the Counterpane Fairy counting on in her thin little voice until she reached FORTY-NINE.
It's a game I invented after I joined the Counterpane Fairies.
Teddy wished his mother could see the Counterpane Fairy herself, and then she would know that it was a real fairy and not a make-believe.
Then Teddy told her how the Counterpane Fairy had said that he must find Silverling and Starlein and that then perhaps he could get into the garden where the singing fountain was.
He was sure it must be the Counterpane Fairy, for it looked like her, though she was quite large now; she looked as large as a real woman.
Presently he heard someone humming cheerfully back of the counterpane hill, and as soon as he heard it he felt sure that the Counterpane Fairy must be coming.
Teddy knew the voice; it was that of the Counterpane Fairy, and there was the top of her brown hood showing over his knees.
Then Teddy began thinking of the Counterpane Fairy, and the stories she had shown him.
For a moment Anna regarded her intently, then her eyes were withdrawn and her white hand beat the counterpane softly, but nothing more was said of Irving Stanley then.
She stood there for a moment perfectly motionless, murmuring a few unintelligible words; but at last, crushed by her sorrow, she sank upon her knees beside the bed, buried her face in the counterpane and wept.
The waxed floor shone like a mirror; the furniture was brilliantly polished, and the counterpane and curtains of the bed were as white as snow.
