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Presently, however, I was aroused by voices at the foot of the rock, and peering over the edge I discovered a kind of sewing-circle gathered there. The foliage hid me completely. I perceived the Celebrity perched upon the low branch of an apple-tree, and Miss Trevor below him, with two other girls, doing fancy-work.
Louise had a book and Beth had been engaged upon some fancy-work. When the door opened Skim bobbed his head and said: "Evenin', mom. I've come a-visitin'." Beth conquered an inclination to smile. "Won't you come in?" she said, sweetly. "Thankee; I will. I'm Skimbley Clark, ye know; down t' the village. Ma keeps a store there." "I'm pleased to meet you, Mr. Clark.
"Fannie Mears has a dozen pin-cushions to make and she made twelve of us promise to take one and finish it for the fancy-work table; and then she wouldn't help iron the napkins for the cake plates. She said it wasn't her table and she didn't intend to waste her time.
"There is an old proverb, 'A watched pot never boils," she added, with sportive look and tone. "Suppose we seat ourselves in the veranda yonder and try to forget the Edna for awhile in an interesting story. I have a new book which looks very interesting, and has been highly commended in some of the reviews. We will get papa to read it aloud to us while we busy ourselves with our fancy-work.
And the fingers which busied themselves with the fancy-work had become steady again, and her voice had been steady all along. "Pray," she asked suddenly, and with a little satirical inflection of voice which Brice was quick to notice, "pray, how is it that you not a policeman, not a detective! come to know so much of all this?
"Poor Eunice never had much management," Maria was wont to say, smoothing down, as she spoke, the folds of her own gown. She never wore out anything; she moved carefully and sat carefully; she did a good deal of fancy-work, but she was always very particular, even when engaged in the daintiest toil, to cover her gown with an apron, and she always held her thin-veined hands high.
It even made it more difficult for her to hear of other pupils, or to get any orders for her beautiful fancy-work. No visitors would come to Middlemoor this winter, though when it was mild they sometimes did. Still, from the day of Dr. Cobbe's visit things improved a little for the time at least.
Dunbar engaged on fancy-work, and occasionally murmuring references to "my last cook" "that tall girl Jane." But it was not they that Frank approached. On two chairs very close together and far removed from the others, Jean and Ellen talked. Their voices, too, were hushed, but the subject of their conversation was evidently more agitating than cooks.
With the earrings came a brooch. Czipra pinned it in Melanie's collar, and her eyes rested on the pretty collar itself: she tried it, looked at it closely and could not discover "how it was made." "Don't you know that work? it is crochet, quite a new kind of fancy-work, but very easy. Come, I will show you right away."
Mayberry, the dentist; in the office of the Panama Wood-Turning Company; in the post-office; as lofty enthroned cashier for the Hub Store; painting place-cards and making "fancy-work" for the Art Needlework Exchange. The job behind the counter in the Hub Store was the only one offered her.
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