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When Gertrude got past the hair-ribbon age, and Halsey asked for a scarf-pin and put on long trousers and a wonderful help that was to the darning. I sent them away to good schools.
She spoke as if he were responsible for some deprivation which Miss Bonford suffered. "Well," he said, "I thought she was warm, and awfully nice only too frail. I wished she was sitting comfortably in peace " "'Darning her husband's stockings," said Clara scathingly. "I'm sure she wouldn't mind darning even my stockings," he said. "And I'm sure she'd do them well.
Morgan was darning stockings in the coolest room in the house, a bedroom with a northern exposure. A white shirt-waist gave a puffy look to a body that could ill endure such appearance of enlargement, and a black belt accentuated the amplitude of girth that it encircled.
Before cooking the plums they should be pierced with a darning needle several times; this will prevent the skins bursting while cooking. Take the pulp from the grapes, preserving the skins. Boil the pulp and rub through a colander to get out the seeds; then add the skins to the strained pulp and boil with the sugar, vinegar and spices.
Martie, smiling over her darning, would hear Alice's gratifying, "Well, for pity!" and "Did you EVER!" at intervals. Sometimes she herself contributed something, a similar case in New York, perhaps, but the others were not interested.
I suppose you've lived all your life among people that thought a great deal of wetting their little finger! but I'm not one of 'em, I guess you'll find." Ellen was convinced of that already. "Well, what are you thinking of?" said Miss Fortune, presently. "I'm thinking of my nice white darning cotton," said Ellen. "I might just as well not have had it." "Is it wound, or in the skein?"
"Oh! Is that all you ask of me?" she mimicked mockingly; but so sweet her smile, and soft her voice, that I did not mind her words. "Remember," said I, "that I am older than you. You are to tell me all that troubles you." "When?" "Now." "No. I have my washing to complete, And you must go. Besides, I have mending, darning, and my knitting yet to do. It all means bed and bait to me."
Margaret had been divested of this darning propensity. How the old lady subsisted herself is hardly known, for it often happened that the dinner she contrived for her nephew, was barely sufficient for him, and although on these occasions she always managed to seem to be eating, yet had Mr.
So instead of crying she pulled out the old stocking, and went on with her darning. When the Ogress came back from the cellar she went up to her and looked at her work. "How you darn!" she cried. "Now that's a sort of thing I hate.
As I say, I don't want Tom Mayberry spoiled. What did I do with that other sock?" And Mother began to hunt in her darning bag, in her lap and on the floor. "Here it is," answered Miss Wingate as she blushed guiltily. "I darned it." And she handed her handiwork over to Mother Mayberry with trepidation in voice and expression.
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