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This put my sister beyond all patience, and me into the greatest admiration. Young woman, said she, you have made a mistake, I want a housemaid, and you are a chambermaid. No, madam, replied she, I am not needlewoman enough for that. And yet you ask eight pounds a year, replied my sister. Yes, madam, said she, nor shall I bate a farthing.
The patient labour expended by the amateur artist, the needleworker, and the connoisseur of home art a generation or two ago has provided the collector to-day with an exceptionally interesting class of curio, for there is much to admire in amateur craftsmanship, and especially in the handiwork of the needlewoman and the weaver and decorator of so many beautiful textiles which have been preserved to us.
So conservative, however, is working England, that the needlewoman, even at starvation point, feels herself superior to a street-seller; and the latter is quite conscious of this feeling, and resents it accordingly.
That cousin of Aramis, that Marie Michon, that needlewoman, notwithstanding her low condition, had acquaintances in the highest rank; she called the grandest ladies of the court her friend, and the queen proud as she is, in her double character as Austrian and as Spaniard called her her sister."
'This must be where my sister lives, sir. This is where she came for a temporary lodging, soon after father's death. 'How often have you seen her since? 'Why, only twice, sir, returned the boy, with his former reluctance; 'but that's as much her doing as mine. 'How does she support herself? 'She was always a fair needlewoman, and she keeps the stockroom of a seaman's outfitter.
As she did so she noticed that the binding of the hood had ripped in one place, and that the lining was fraying out, a mishap which should be promptly remedied before it spread any further. She was not a very expert needlewoman, and she thought she had better run over the way to consult Mrs. O'Driscoll, then a young matron, esteemed the handiest and most helpful person in Lisconnel.
Now, Madame Olivier, formerly a needlewoman in the household of Charles X., who had fallen in the world with the legitimate branch, had three children. The eldest, an under-clerk in a notary's office, was object of his parents' adoration.
What do you mean by that? Bill. Green you are, to be sure! She ain't one as steals, or Wat. Not she. She's a sempstress a needlewoman, or something of the sort. Bill. And where shall I find you, sir? Wat. Let me see: to-morrow night on the steps of St. Martin's Church ten o'clock. Bill. But if I don't find her? It may be a week or a month or Wat. Come whether you find her or not, and let me know.
But you forget, George Balgarnie never could have made you his wife a working needlewoman; he only fancied you as the plaything of an hour. He told me so himself when I charged him with having been seen in your company. So, Mysie, you may as well look cheerful. Your turn will come next with some one in your own station."
Five minutes after quitting Mdlle. de Cardoville, Mother Bunch, having left the garden without being perceived, reascended to the first story, and knocked gently at the door of the press-room. A sister came to open the door to her. "Is not Mdlle. Florine, with whom I came, still here, sister?" asked the needlewoman. "She could not wait for you any longer.
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