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Linwood is a nice place to visit, and the old ladies enjoy it vastly, especially Aunt Betsy, who never tires of telling what they have "over to Katy's," and whose capeless shaker hangs often on the hall stand, just as it hangs now, while she, good soul, sits in the pleasant parlor, near the blazing fire, and darns the socks for Morris, taking as much pains as if it were a network of fine lace she was weaving, instead of a shocking rent in some luckless heel or toe.
The thread hadn't any knot in it!" "That was very well, too, until you knew just where to put the stitches that should stay." "Which brings us to our subject of the morning, as the sermons say sometimes, when they're half through, or ought to be. There are all kinds of stitches, embroidery, and plain over-and-over, and whippings, and darns!
I think he will just doze, he usually sleeps while I'm gone. But he didn't like his lunch, so I'll leave it here. If he should call, do you mind taking it in?" After that the house was still. Felicia finished the petticoat, folded it neatly and began making exquisite darns in a white silk stocking. Babiche lifted her small head and sniffed in the direction of the invalid's lunch tray.
Contenson, who saw everything and never was surprised at anything, scornfully wiped his lips with a bandana, in which there were but three darns, took his change, slipped all the coppers into his side pocket, of which the lining, once white, was now as black as the cloth of the trousers, and did not leave one for the waiter.
So what you do is to think of some role for me to play, so that I can come to see you; let me be advising you about your proposed day-nursery, or let me be a tutor of something, or a nice, respectable sewing-woman who darns the toes of your silk stockings!" She laughed.
"Because Hephzy tells me to." "Do you always do what she tells you?" "Generally. It's the easiest way, as I said before." "Good heavens! And she darns your socks and tells you what er lingerie to wear and does she wash your face and wipe your nose and scrub behind your ears?" "Not exactly, but she probably would if I didn't do it." "Well, I'll be hanged!
As goon as the site is thoroughly cleared, the work of the frame and the net begins on the support of the suspension-cable which was respected. Would it not be simpler to restore the old web, which might serve many times yet, if a few rents were just repaired? One would say so; but does the Spider know how to patch her work, as a thrifty housewife darns her linen? That is the question.
Boyd, a pale little nonentity, but she darns in the most elegant fashion you ever saw. She had to bring her daughter you see, and the daughter is to be a teacher is a sort of charity scholar, looks after the laggards in the evening, but she keeps her place pretty well. Of course she lives over on that side," nodding her head.
His nether man was encased in a pair of most dilapidated white moleskins, that had been degraded from hunting into shooting ones, and whose cracks and darns showed the perils to which their wearer had been exposed. Below these were drab, horn-buttoned gaiters, and hob-nailed shoes. 'Going a-gunning, are you? asked Mr. Sponge, after the morning salutation, which Jog returned most gruffly.
"Did you know that the morals of the German public are in such a shaky condition that a glimpse of that sort would be fatal to them?" "But I don't see how a stocking " "With stripes round it," said Irais. "And darns in it," I added, " could possibly be pernicious?" "'The Pernicious Stocking; or, Thoughts on the Ethics of Petticoats," said Irais.
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