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Hand me yonder weary gear. It is better than counting one's fingers, maybe." Amphillis stooped and gathered up the scattered broidery, glancing at Perrote to see if she were doing right. As she approached her mistress to offer them, Perrote whispered, hurriedly, "On the knee, child! on the knee!" and Amphillis, blushing for her mistake, dropped on one knee.
"She can read and write equal to the parson himself, and I've hearn folks say that her 'broidery and music playin' was better than Mrs. Merton's own; but, poor thing! Mrs. Merton died, and still the parson begged Sir Edward to let her stay with him she was all that was left now, he said so Sir Edward let her stay. Mr. Merton died a year ago, and when Mr.
Round the table of citrean wood, highly polished and delicately wrought with silver arabesques, were placed the three couches, which were yet more common at Pompeii than the semicircular seat that had grown lately into fashion at Rome: and on these couches of bronze, studded with richer metals, were laid thick quiltings covered with elaborate broidery, and yielding luxuriously to the pressure.
She stretches out her hands to the wheel, and her fingers grasp the spindle. Hadst thou learned this, in place of thy costly broidery, methinks it would have been better with thee this day." As he thus spoke, he put the purse in her hands, and she instantly hid it in her pocket.
In the piece at Florence the effect of the sun shining through a tree is thus produced by gold leaf under the broidery of tree-leaves. Silver leaf is employed for water, with blue silk drawn in lines over it. So with the sea. There seemed to be silver burnished to its greatest polish below, over which the water was drawn as a blue lacquer. And Nice.
With their processions of students ever walking abroad, the seminaries of the different nations would alone have sufficed to drape and decorate the streets, for there were the French and the English all in black, the South Americans in black with blue sashes, the North Americans in black with red sashes, the Poles in black with green sashes, the Greeks in blue, the Germans in red, the Scots in violet, the Romans in black or violet or purple, the Bohemians with chocolate sashes, the Irish with red lappets, the Spaniards with blue cords, to say nothing of all the others with broidery and bindings and buttons in a hundred different styles.
They stared about the deserted garden in which stones and sacks of earth had been stored ready for a siege, and finding no one, said: "We do not see them." Then the lady let slip her cloak, though not her veil revealing the robe beneath. "By St. Peter!" said Godwin. "I know the broidery on that dress. Masouda! Say, is it you, Masouda?"
They swung and threaded swiftly, in shifting arabesque, in Gothic traceries, in lace-like fantasies; utterly bizarre, unutterably beautiful crystalline, geometric always. Abruptly their movement ceased so abruptly that the stoppage of all the ordered turmoil had the quality of appalling silence. An unimaginable tapestry bedight with incredible broidery, the Metal People draped the vast cup.
The groups would have outgrown their frames, and left their picture spaces on the walls, and, stretching into life-size figures, have become hangings of silken broidery, such as we find in Spain and Italy, from the hands of nuns or noble ladies. Lydia Very of Salem at the age of sixteen while at Mrs. Peabody's school.
'The morning is chilly. And, as she passed out into the court, hand in hand with Veranilda, 'O, the pleasure of these large spaces, this free air, after the straight house at Cumae! Do you not breathe more lightly, sweetest? Come into Proba's garden, and I will show you where I sat with my broidery when I was no older than you. The garden was approached by a vaulted passage.
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