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"Well ... that day ... if I had been ... if I had been ... enterprising ... what would you have done?" She began to laugh as only a happy woman can laugh, who has nothing to regret, and responded, frankly, in a voice tinged with irony: "I would have yielded, my friend." She then turned on her heels and went back to her jam-making.
The village was silent as usual. At the corner of the streets were small pink heaps that smoked in the air, for this was the time for jam-making, and everyone at Yonville prepared his supply on the same day.
I know you don't know one end of a gun from the other, but it doesn't matter; and it reads rather well something unique about it in an actress." "Why not put angling, and give some of my dear enemies a chance to ask what for?" "Or jam-making," suggested Alymer, "and redeem the stage in the eyes of the British matron." "Oh, don't talk... how can I write?
The princess, conscious that Agafea Mihalovna's wrath must be chiefly directed against her, as the person responsible for the raspberry jam-making, tried to appear to be absorbed in other things and not interested in the jam, talked of other matters, but cast stealthy glances in the direction of the stove.
They are good fruits for home consumption or for the fresh-fruit trade, but are not equal to European varieties of plums for preserving, drying, or jam-making. In this State they have one very great drawback, and that is their liability to the attack of the fruit fly, a pest that very frequently destroys the entire crop.
But no, she must needs hanker after Jack, and that's why I say it's such nonsense. Well, when the letter come, I was up to my elbows in the jam-making raspberry and currant it was, and Mattie, she was down in the garden getting the last berries off the canes.
Next autumn, some time in March or April, when the fruit-preserving and jam-making are done with, Helen can take the child to Sydney for a month or so, and you can show them round. It will be a great treat for Sybylla as she has never been in Sydney." "That's right, let's strike a bargain on that, gran." said Everard. "Yes; it's a bargain, if I hear no more about the stage.
She was beginning to understand Max's attitude at last; and it filled her with misgiving. The rest of that day was passed in so ordinary a fashion that Olga found herself wondering now and then if she could by any chance have dreamed the events of the night. During the whole of the morning she was occupied with her jam-making, while Violet lazed in the garden.
Then each woman takes up the pursuit which, according to her character, seems to promise some amusement. Some rush into jam-making and washing, household management, the rural joys of the vintage or the harvest, bottling fruit, embroidering handkerchiefs, the cares of motherhood, the intrigues of a country town.
In the evening he would talk about these new orchids to his friends, and over and over again he reverted to his expectation of something strange. Several of the Vandas and the Dendrobium died under his care, but presently the strange orchid began to show signs of life. He was delighted, and took his housekeeper right away from jam-making to see it at once, directly he made the discovery.
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