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Cousin Tryphena paled a little, "I'm a good sewer, I could make money sewing ... and I could do washings for city-folks, summer-times...." Her set mouth told what a price she paid for this voluntary abandonment of the social standing that had been hers by virtue of her idleness. She went on with sudden spirit, "You all act as though I was doin' it to spite you and to amuse myself! I don't want to!
Well, I do not wonder at it; you are civilized beyond the common herd; your mamma, careful of her own comfort and the beauty of her child, guards both. Your sunny summer-times go by in the shade of sylvan groves, or amid the whirl of Saratoga or Newport ball-rooms. I accept your ignorance; it is a pretty blossom in your maiden chaplet.
Summer-times the andirons have been trimmed up with sparrergrass an' the like o' that, an' winter-times they've been shined up complete an' the fire snappin' behind 'em. What am I offered " Miss Letty was standing. "Oh," she cried, "I never meant to put that fire-set in. Why, don't you remember "
One of those lovely summer-times when the sky is blue, and the earth is just in its most beautiful robe of green. "Going on the mere, Dick?" said his father. "Well, don't get drowned or bogged." "Dick will take care," said Mrs Winthorpe, who was busy cutting provender. "Tom Tallington going with you?" said the squire. "No, father; I'm going alone."
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