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He informed her that they lived in a small lodging up two pair of stairs; that there were five children, all girls, the three eldest of whom were hard at work with their mother in matting chair-bottoms, and the fourth, though a mere child, was nursing the youngest; while the poor carpenter himself was confined to his bed, in consequence of a fall from a ladder while working at Violet-Bank, by which he was covered with wounds and contusions, and an object of misery and pain.
But woman's dignity! let her sit and sew work squares for ottomans, or borders for chair-bottoms psha! beat a retreat, old man, or you'll be under the pump in two minutes. I'll teach you to talk nonsense about your women I will as sure as my name is Jane Sword and I command the Sucking Pigeons!" "Pigeons don't suck, ma'am. Mrs M. lent me book of nat'ral history"
We have noticed that it is a very silent operation, that of weaving chair-bottoms; and that though the couple may be seated for an hour and more together rapidly plying the flexible canes, they never exchange a word with each other till the task is accomplished.
It was deemed too good to sit in, except when there was company: there never being company, it was never sat in. Indeed, now the paper was falling off the walls with the damp, and the rats, mice, and moths those /"edaces rerum"/ had eaten, between them, most of the chair-bottoms and a considerable part of the floor.
It was deemed too good to sit in, except when there was company: there never being company, it was never sat in. Indeed, now the paper was falling off the walls with the damp, and the rats, mice, and moths those "edaces rerum" had eaten, between them, most of the chair-bottoms and a considerable part of the floor.
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