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Nothing had limited the time spent in the embroidering of this apparently simple linen frock and coat; nothing had restrained the hand holding the scissors which had cut into the lace which adorned in appliques and filmy frills this exquisitely charming ball dress. "It is looking back so far," she said, waving her hand towards them with an odd gesture.
Of course, in a family where a servant dusts, the present is forgotten the moment it is placed on the shelf. I remember the dearest of little girls who once made me a Christmas present of a purse of her own embroidering.
I have become uncomfortably conscious of my own limitations, and the feeble, ephemeral methods I am using. I am trifling with a wonderful story, embroidering my facts with the tawdry detail of my own imagining. I saw I see no other way. This is, indeed, a preface, yet I prefer to put it in this place, since it was at this time I wrote it.
Should not the Young be encouraged to spring to the call, "To arms, to arms, ye braves!" instead of being reproved for buying a Tent with no place as yet to put it, and the Adams's governess being sent along with Elaine because we need a Chaperone? Ye gods! A Chaperone to a Milatary Camp! She is now sitting on one of the camp stools and embroidering a centerpeice.
They were all at work, as was likewise their royal lady, to whom the girl, with the youthful coyness that halts in the fulfilment of its dreams, did not at first raise her eyes, having first taken in all the ladies, the several portions of one great coverlet which they were all embroidering in separate pieces, and the gentleman who was reading aloud to them from a large book placed on a desk at which he was standing.
They excelled in drawing and embroidering upon satin, silk or lawn, representing either beasts, fowls, fish, or worms, in the most natural manner. They also worked in silk, silver, gold, and pearl. On the same night of their arrival at Capal the Portuguese Nicholas Rodrigo, who had been taken out of the Santa Anna, desired to speak to Cavendish in secret.
Holt had dropped the carriage-blanket she was embroidering for her daughter's baby. "Are you dreaming?" she gasped. "Hiram will haunt the place!" "Just you wait. Miss Webster hasn't waited all these years for nothing." Nor had she. The sudden and stupendous change in her fortunes had routed grief made her dizzy with possibilities.
I am led, as it were, by this little being, who seemed to me at first only a doll, for whom I was embroidering caps and dresses. You ask whether I am satisfied with my lot in life. Yes, I am, thanks to this guide, this guardian angel, thanks to my precious Enguerrand."
In a small but very pretty picture by Guido, the Virgin, as a young girl, sits embroidering a yellow robe. In an old illumination, the Virgin is seated spinning, with an angel by her side. It is recorded that the angels daily ministered to her, and fed her with celestial food.
And, before she had time to consider, Henrietta found herself gently pushed into a small sitting-room, where a middle-aged lady was embroidering at a frame by the light of a large copper lamp. "Dear sister," said Papa Ravinet, still in the door, "here is the young lady of whom I spoke to you, and who does us the honor to accept our hospitality."
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