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Meanwhile, let the child accustom herself to the new ideas and so be prepared for what she must certainly learn, should the master's illness be a fatal one. "Oh! then, hear me. That room shall always now be mine to care for. I haven't liked the housewifery, not at all. But if I have a father and I can do things for him that alters everything.
Still Nelly did not answer, though she started so violently that her loosely-crossed hands fell apart; and Nanny Swinton, who was about her housewifery in the cupboard off the lady's parlour, heard every word, and trembled at the pause.
I did tell him how things stand with us, and did shew my distrust of Pall, both for her good nature and housewifery, which he was sorry for, telling me that indeed she carries herself very well and carefully, which I am glad to hear, though I doubt it was but his doting and not being able to find her miscarriages so well nowadays as he could heretofore have done.
It had worked into every fibre of the lace curtains, dingying them to an unpleasant gray; it lay on the window-sills and it dimmed the glass panes; it covered the walls, covered the ceiling, and was smeared darker and thicker in all corners. Yet here was no fault of housewifery; the curse could not be lifted, as the ingrained smudges permanent on the once white woodwork proved.
But there is safety in a spinning instrument, and all the compliments to the lady, "the dainty-ankled Theugenis," turn on her skill, and industry, and housewifery. So Louis XIV., no mean authority, called this piece of vers de societe "a model of honourable gallantry."
When ladies delighted in lace-working, and in starching and preparing their produce most carefully, they showed their good housewifery in washing and ironing it with their own hands. It was gallantry on the part of their spouses to make befitting presents of all things requisite for their labours, and worthy their use.
Mary thought that if she began by learning the homely devices of the villagers the very A B C of cookery and housewifery she might gradually enlarge upon this simple basis to suit an income of from five to seven hundred a year. The house-mothers from whom she sought information were puzzled at this sudden curiosity about domestic matters.
And you'll have a drink of something cool. Now what shall it be? 'Sherry, he said, with his eyes on Hazel's. 'I misdoubt if there's any of the Christmas-pudding bottle left, but I'll go and see, she said, all in a flutter. How tragic a thing for her, who prided herself on her housewifery, to have no sherry when it was asked for! Her steps died away down the cellar stairs.
And when none would trust thee farther, give Judgments for twice the Money thou borrowest, and swear thy self at Age; and lastly to patch up your broken Fortune, you wou'd fain marry my sweet Mistress Celinda here But, Faith, Sir, you're mistaken, her Fortune shall not go to the Maintenance of your Misses; which being once sure of, she, poor Soul, is sent down to the Country-house, to learn Housewifery, and live without Mankind, unless she can serve her self with the handsom Steward, or so whilst you tear it away in Town, and live like Man and Wife with your Jilt, and are every Day seen in the Glass Coach, whilst your own natural Lady is hardly worth the Hire of a Hack.
A feat of practical housewifery, which my mother used to tell of, shows another side of the Rhode-Islander, which is not less illustrative of the stock.
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