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He purchased a full "haircloth set" of parlor furniture from old Mrs. Penniman, who never had been known to sell any of her hoarded belongings before, even to the "antiquers," and wouldn't have done so now, had it not been that the captain's offer was too princely to be real, and the old lady feared she might be dreaming and would wake up before she received the money.
"Well," said Miss Hitty, again, though she felt that the words were flat; "I'm glad you've come back. It seems like old times for us to be settin' here, talkin', and " here she laughed shrilly "we've both been spared marriage." A small, slender hand clutched convulsively at the arm of the haircloth chair, but Miss Evelina did not speak.
I wondered if the widow took this ingenious method of publishing to the world that in life her husband had been less to her than her dog. Paris crape is this slippery, shiny sort of stuff, like thin haircloth the kind they used to cover furniture with.
Those with difficult haircloth seats in the parlor were deacons; others in the breakfast room talkative and unpretentious; while the deep easy-chair before the library fire was a ship.
She set the vase on a little stand near Keith's chair, then dropped herself on to the huge haircloth sofa near by. "My, but I don't mind settin' myself awhile," she smiled. "Guess I'm tired." "I should think you would be." Mazie, grown suddenly a bit stiff and stilted, was obviously trying to be very polite and "grown up." "There must be an awful lot to do here.
To remain alone in that big echoing room, was only to invite thoughts of home and other far off and lost joys. When Miss Armstrong had left her, and her trunk had come bumping up the back stairs and been deposited in the vast closet, she sat down on the black haircloth chair and looked hopelessly around the big dreary room.
The haircloth could not be found, and the pebble would attract the notice of the Argus-eyed aunt, besides being a foolish bar to the activity of a person who had to do housework and walk a mile and a half to school. Her first experimental attempt at martyrdom had not been a distinguished success.
When my stocks in cloud-land rise, I'll build a cathedral larger than Milan's; and the men, but more particularly the women, thereon, shall be those who have done even more than Saint Paul tells of in the saints of old, who 'subdued kingdoms, wrought righteousness, quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens. I am not now thinking of Florence Nightingale, nor of the host of women who have been walking worthily in her footsteps, but of nameless saints of more retired and private state, domestic saints, who have tended children not their own through whooping-cough and measles, and borne the unruly whims of fretful invalids, stocking-darning, shirt-making saints, saints who wore no visible garment of haircloth, bound themselves with no belts of spikes and nails, yet in their inmost souls were marked and seared with the red cross of a lifelong self-sacrifice, saints for whom the mystical terms self-annihilation and self-crucifixion had a real and tangible meaning, all the stronger because their daily death was marked by no outward sign.
Every time I set on a haircloth chair I feel's if I was draggin' anchor." The cot was declared ineligible, also, and the question was finally settled by Josiah and Captain Eri going upstairs to the room once occupied by John Baxter, while Ralph took that which they vacated. It was some time before he fell asleep. The gale seemed to be tearing loose the eternal foundations.
'What is the use of wearing haircloth when the fire of the Bourbons is in one's blood, and one has a face that all the world runs after? 'Mais, Mademoiselle, I said; 'temptation is only to prove our strength. 'You are strong. You have conquered, she said, and clasped my hand. 'But then you loved him.
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