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"See how they sail," said the darning-needle; "they do not know what is under them. I am here, and here I shall stick. See, there goes a chip, thinking of nothing in the world but himself only a chip. There's a straw going by now; how he turns and twists about! Don't be thinking too much of yourself, or you may chance to run against a stone.
"The most depressing thing about money," put in his wife, "is that the Bible should say so definitely that a rich man can hardly get into heaven. Oh, I know all about a needle's eye being a gate, but I've always a picture in my own mind of a camel and an ordinary darning-needle, and anything more hopeless could hardly be imagined." Mrs.
Furthermore, the woods and the general mystery of islands were as inviting as Punch. "It's not much fun watching the tide come in," she said after a time. Aladdin got up. "Let's go away," he said, "and come back. It never comes in if you watch for it to." Margaret arose, and they went into the woods. A devil's darning-needle came and buzzed for an instant on the bow of the skiff.
"I am no fellow, I am a lady!" said the darning-needle; but no one heard it. The sealing-wax had worn off, and it had become quite black; but black makes one look more slender, and the needle fancied it looked more delicate than ever. "Here comes an egg-shell sailing along!" said the boys; and then they stuck the needle upright in the egg-shell.
By my faith, Tom, the girl does no discredit to the major's taste." "She would do honor to the corps," replied the lieutenant, with some warmth. "Those blue eyes might easily win a man to gentler employments than this trade of ours. In sober truth, I can easily imagine such a girl might tempt even me to quit the broadsword and saddle, for a darning-needle and pillion."
'No, THAT wouldn't do, said Cyril. 'Let's chuck it and go to the North Pole, or somewhere really interesting. 'No, said the girls together, 'there must be SOME way. 'Wait a sec, Anthea added. 'I've got an idea coming. Don't speak. There was a silence as she paused with the darning-needle in the air! Suddenly she spoke: 'I see.
"Oh, Bertha, you drive me nearly mad; I tell you I will get it." "All the willing and the wishing in the world won't make the impossible come to pass," retorted Bertha, and now she once more threaded her darning-needle and took out another stocking from the basket. "Then what is to be done?" said Florence. "Do you know what will happen if I fail?"
She sat with grim determination, upright as a darning-needle stuck in a board, holding on her bundle of umbrella and parasols, and replying with a determination that was enough to strike dismay even into a hackman, wondering to Eva, in each interval, "what upon earth her papa could be thinking of; he couldn't have fallen over, now, but something must have happened;" and just as she had begun to work herself into a real distress, he came up, with his usually careless motion, and giving Eva a quarter of the orange he was eating, said,
If, forgetful of earth, and trees, and the human stocks around me, I pour forth the language of the great song-masters, they grin at my insanity they hold me incapable of reason, and declare their ideas of what that is, by asking who knows most of the dairy, the cabbage-patch, the spinning-wheel, the darning-needle who can best wash Polly's or Patty's face and comb its head can chop up sausage-meat the finest make the lightest paste, and more economically dispense the sugar in serving up the tea! and these are what is expected of woman!
There never were any formal good-nights between the Durgins, and he went away now without further words. His mother remained sitting where he left her. Two or three times she drew her empty darning-needle through the heel of the stocking she was mending. She was still sitting there when Jackson passed on his way to bed, after leaving the office in charge of the night porter.
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