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Boyd can mend it fit to be seen! I can't take it to the tailors now." "She darns beautifully." "Well, that's what she's here for; mender in general." "But it seems dreadful to ask her to do it in the evening, and the daylight is almost gone." Louie hated to give up whatever her mind was set upon. She hurriedly changed her frock and put on a light evening dress.
He never bought himself any clothes or linen, and wore his garments till they scarcely held together. His linen, thick with darns, rubbed his skin like a hair shirt. Madame de Portenduere, and other good souls, had an agreement with his housekeeper to replace the old clothes with new ones after he went to sleep, and the abbe did not always find out the difference.
First, he put on some socks that I'd darned. They were the first since our marriage that I'd found to darn, and I'd been so proud and and happy while I was darning them. But but he took 'em off right after breakfast and threw 'em in a corner. Then he put on a new pair, and said that I I needn't darn any more; that it made bunches. Billy, my darns bunches!" Marie's face and voice were tragic.
But it was not so stylish when they got inside, and the appearance of the stout woman, evidently both proprietor and cashier, who presided over the scene at a table on a low platform near the door reassured them both. And the red candleshades were only crinkled paper; the lace curtains showed many careful darns.
Uncle Ethan was mending his old violin, with many York State "dums!" and "I gal darns!" totally oblivious of his tireless old wife, who, having "finished the supper dishes," sat knitting a stocking, evidently for the little grandson who lay before the stove like a cat.
'Tenafly Gold is sellin' fer twenty dollars on the Curb right this minute! An' he says, says he: 'Yew git yer husband, an' bring that air stock over this arternoon; an', says he, 'I'll realize on it fer yer ter-morrer mornin'." Abe stared at his wife, at her shining silk dress with its darns and careful patches, at her rough, worn hands, and at the much mended lace over her slender wrists.
"Yes, MY gown; whose else could you more appropriately borrow, pray? Mistress Ogilvie of Crummylowe presses, sponges, and darns my bachelor wardrobe, but I confess I never suspected that she rented it out for theatrical purposes. I have been calling upon you in Pettybaw; Lady Ardmore was there at the same time.
She had made up her mind that she would wear her new blouse at dinner that day. Susy's stockings were coarse, and showed darns here and there; Susy's shoes were rough, and could not altogether hide the disfiguring patches on the toes of each; Susy's skirt was dark-blue serge, fairly neat in its way.
A pair of old cowhide boots that leaked in more snow an' water 'n they kept out, an' a couple pairs of woolen socks that was putty much all darns, was expected to see me through the winter, an' I went barefoot f'm the time the snow was off the ground till it flew agin in the fall. The' wa'n't but two seasons o' the year with me them of chilblains an' stun-bruises."
The others never notice that Roxanne's hands are never empty of patching jobs. Still Mamie Sue does attentively feed her fudge in hunks while she darns. "I don't know boys well enough to diagram their expressions," I answered. "They always look excited and queer to me, and I can't tell their jokes from their other affairs. What have they been doing?"
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