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The stocking she was to darn lay in her lap; her right hand in which she held the long darning-needle rested idly on the edge of the table. She was leaning back a little; her face, which looked more refined and prettier in the twilight, was raised; she seemed to be lost in thought with her mouth half open. Nothing was to be seen of Wolfgang.
Reddy was quite sure he could mend one or two of the largest holes if he had a darning-needle and some twine; but after he got both from Aunt Olive, and stuck the needle twice in his own hand, once in Joe Robinson's, and then broke it, he concluded that it would be just as well to paste brown paper over the holes.
In fact he was really rebelling hotly against the whole thing the socks, the yarn, the porcelain ball, and more than all, the darning-needle she handled so skillfully. What had the future Mrs.
I wish I could be clear that the path of duty lay in talking to you this afternoon, but as I find a loud call to consider the heels of George's stockings, I must only write a word or two, and then resume my darning-needle. You don't know how anxiously we all have watched for some intelligence from Hartford.
"I knew very well that I should come to honor; when one is something, one comes to something." And she laughed quietly to herself and one can never see when a Darning-Needle laughs. There she sat, as proud as if she were in a state coach, and looked all about her. "May I be permitted to ask if you are gold?" she inquired of the Pin, her neighbor.
But not for long, for now with a shimmering glitter our darning-needle invades the scene, and retires to a convenient perch with a ruby-eyed fly in his teeth, while a swarm of very startled butterflies tells conspicuously of the demoralization which he has left in his path.
"Here comes an eggshell sailing along," said the boys; and they stuck the Darning-Needle fast into the eggshell. "White walls, and black myself! that looks well," remarked the Darning- Needle. "Now one can see me. I only hope I shall not be seasick!" But she was not seasick at all.
'Look, I am coming with my train! said the Darning-needle as she drew a long thread after her; but there was no knot at the end of the thread. The Fingers were using the needle on the cook's shoe. The upper leather was unstitched and had to be sewn together. 'This is common work! said the Darning-needle. 'I shall never get through it. I am breaking! I am breaking! And in fact she did break.
It glittered so splendidly, that the needle thought it must be a diamond: but it was only a bit of a broken bottle, and because it glittered the darning-needle addressed it, and introduced itself to the other as a breast-pin. "You are, no doubt, a diamond?" "Yes, something of that sort."
And yet they were only there to take me out of the work-box and to put me back again! 'Were they of noble birth, then? asked the bit of bottle-glass. 'Of noble birth! said the Darning-needle; 'no indeed, but proud! They were five brothers, all called ''Fingers. They held themselves proudly one against the other, although they were of different sizes.
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