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Updated: July 20, 2025
Hesitating just a second, Gyp drew off her gardening-gloves: "Of course! Here? Or in the drawing-room?" Rosek answered: "In the drawing-room, please." A faint tremor passed through her, but she led the way, and seated herself where she could see Betty and the baby.
Long was husband to a dot of a woman who, having borne him half a dozen children of his own feature and build, now worked as parish clerk and district visitor rolled in one; driving about in sunbonnet and gardening-gloves behind a pair of cream ponies tiny, sharp-featured, resolute; with little of her husband's large tolerance, but an energy that outdid his own, and made her an object of both fear and respect.
"Visitors?" she echoed. "And me in this state to receive 'em, earthed up to the wrists!" She plucked off her gardening-gloves, handed them to Dinah, and stooped to snatch up one of a pair of white cuffs badges of her widowhood that she had laid aside on the turf before starting to work.
A card-table habitually stood in front of this false repository learning, and it was only last week that Diva, prying casually round the room while Elizabeth had gone to take off her gardening-gloves, had noticed a modest catch let into the wood-work.
My morning toilette consists of a long black studio apron such as the French children wear to school, it takes the place of a dress, felt shoes inside my sabots, a big hat, and long gardening-gloves. In that get-up I weed a little, rake up my paths, examine my fruit trees, and, at intervals, lean on my rake in a Maud Muller posture and gaze at the view.
There was a certain soft indolence in the way she moved that was a delight to his eye. It occurred to him that he would ask his Martha why she didn't wear gardening-gloves. Mrs. Richie wore them, and as she pulled one off he saw how soft and white her hand was.... "How's the patient?" he asked. "Poor Maggie? Oh, she's pretty uncomfortable I'm afraid."
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