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On one occasion, when going to fish with his wife in their little pond, he noticed with joy how she took more pleasure in her few fish than many a nobleman did in his great lakes with many hundred draughts of fishes. In 1539 he had to order a chest at Torgau for his 'lord Katie, for their store of house-linen.

She was sewing, apparently mending house-linen, which she quietly put down to greet him. There was a book before her; a book of poetry, he thought. She slipped it among the folds of the linen. He could not flatter himself that his appearance disturbed her composure in the least.

Both the women began to cry as they heard of the ambitious plans; and when he asked the reason of their trouble, they told him that every penny they possessed had been spent on table-linen, house-linen, Eve's wedding clothes, and on a host of things that David had overlooked. They had been so glad to do this, for David had made a marriage-settlement of ten thousand francs on Eve.

'Such a relief to throw oneself into a bit of drawing! She looked down at her work. 'What hobby do you fly to? 'I mend the house-linen, and I tie down the jam, said Lucy, laughing. 'You have heard me play so you know I don't do that well! And I can't draw a hay-stack. 'You play very well, said Eleanor embarrassed, as they moved towards the dining-room.

"Six weeks would be ample say so, Rosamond," insisted Lydgate, releasing her hands to put his arm gently round her. One little hand immediately went to pat her hair, while she gave her neck a meditative turn, and then said seriously "There would be the house-linen and the furniture to be prepared. Still, mamma could see to those while we were away." "Yes, to be sure. We must be away a week or so."

The gardener, a gruff old cynic usually, gave his best grapes and peaches for "Master Terry"; even the small sewing maid who sat in a slip of a room at a remote corner of the house, mending the house-linen under the supervision of the housekeeper, was known to have said that though she never saw Master Terry she felt he was there. The dogs were aware of his coming before he came.

Your daughter will have enough and to spare 'Oh, godmother, cried Kate imploringly. 'It wasn't I, my darling, that said the five hundred would be better spent on wedding-clothes or house-linen. That delicate and refined suggestion was your father's. It was his lordship made the remark. It was a fortunate accident at that conjuncture that a servant should announce the arrival of Mr.

Jane was pleased with the plan, and accordingly it was put in execution with as little delay as possible. In two months' time the house was ready for them. The little furniture and house-linen which was required was put into it, and all the family, except Charles, removed to their new abode.

"The implied accusation took me aback so completely that I stood staring at him in speechless astonishment, and at that unlucky moment a tradesman, from whom I had ordered some house-linen, passed along the quay. Seeing me, he stopped and touched his hat. "'Beg pardon, Mr. Draper, said he, 'but I shall be sending my cart up to Sundersley to-morrow morning if that will do for you.

The natives also collect together publicans and shopkeepers in search of bargains in china, glass, and house-linen; farmers bent on purchasing such outdoor property as wheelbarrows, scythes, or harness. When Hyacinth, to use the local expression, 'called an auction' shortly after his father's death, he was favoured with quite the usual crowd of would-be buyers.