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Updated: May 14, 2025
There was no escape, and I staggered up and stammered out a few words and sat down dead, killed thoroughly enraged that I had not spent the forenoon in making myself ready at least to read something, instead of poring over Adam Bede. To this Mrs. Stanton replies: "You speak of the effect of Adam Bede on you. It moved me deeply, and The Mill on the Floss is another agony.
The sound-calls of the wilderness had been those of struggling waters, of cracking trees, of snow-masses violently displaced. But now birds were in full song everywhere, carrying trifles of stick and floss and grass wherewith to build their nests. Formerly there had been the uneasy groans and sighs of a gigantic restless sleeper.
Rose, at the oven, turned a flushed and interested face toward Floss. "Who? What's that? A hat?" "Yes. But listen " "Let's see it." Floss whipped it out of its bag, defiantly. "There! But wait a minute! Let me tell you " "How much?" Floss hesitated just a second. Her wage was nine dollars a week. Then, "Seven-fifty, trimmed."
On Rose's face was the vague, mute look of the woman whose days are spent indoors, at sordid tasks. At six-thirty every night that look lifted, for an hour. At six-thirty they came home Floss, and Al, and Pa their faces stamped with the marks that come from a day spent in shop and factory.
Such leisure as I had from my profession was spent in "minding" the younger children an occupation in which I delighted. They all had very pretty hair, and I used to wash it and comb it out until it looked as fine and bright as floss silk.
There is not a cloud in the blue not even one of those beautiful white filamentary things, like ghosts of silken floss, which usually swim in this most ethereal of earthly skies even in the driest weather. A sudden shadow at the door. Akira, the young Buddhist student, stands at the threshold slipping his white feet out of his sandal-thongs preparatory to entering, and smiling like the god Jizo.
Floss rushed into the dining-room fastening the waist-band of her skirt, her hat already on. Rose always had a rather special breakfast for Floss. Floss posed as being a rather special person. She always breakfasted last, and late.
Rose had been pretty then in much the same delicate way that Floss was pretty now. They were to have been married. Rose's mother fell ill, Floss and Al were little more than babies. The marriage was put off. The illness lasted six months a year two years became interminable. The breach into which Rose had stepped closed about her and became a prison.
The shining bald head, which looked so very large because it shone so much; and the long grey hair at its sides and back, like floss silk or spun glass, which looked so very benevolent because it was never cut; were not, of course, to be seen in the boy as in the old man.
The methods shown in the sampler would answer almost equally well for gold, except that working in gold one would not at H use bullion-stitch, but bullion, first covering the underlay of stitching with smoothly-laid yellow floss. BULLION consists of closely coiled wire. It is made by winding fine wire tightly and closely round a core of stouter wire.
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