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Updated: May 31, 2025
"What will happen then, John?" asked Nan, with a wondering glance. "I'll tell you in a year, Nan, wait till then." And John's strong hand unclosed, as if the desired good were not to be his yet. Di looked at him, with a knitting-needle stuck into her hair, saying, like a sarcastic unicorn,
He pours upon you a kind of satirical, heroical, critical poem, with regular cadences, and generally catching up, near the beginning, some singular epithet which serves as a refrain when his song is full, or with which, as with a knitting-needle, he catches up the stitches, if he has chanced now and then to let fall a row.
The Bible says that it is harder for a rich man to get to heaven than for a knitting-needle to stick into a camel, because he and it are blunt, I suppose; and it must be just the same with such a rich girl. Poor child, I am so sorry for her; but we must be very careful."
"It is no wonder," he said, doctoring the wick of his candle with her knitting-needle. "Did you know it before?" "I began to suspect it after the accident, but I was not sure; nor am I now." "I am," said Jock, quietly. "She is a stupid girl!" burst out his mother. "No! there's no blame to either of them. That's one comfort. She gave me full warning, and he knew nothing about it, nor ever shall."
Amelia was ashamed of her momentary outbreak. She looked up and smiled sunnily. "Well, I suppose it is foolish," she owned, "too foolish to tell. But I've been settin' all his clothes in order to lay 'em aside at last. I kind o' like to do it." Aunt Ann wagged her head, and ran a knitting-needle up under her cap on a voyage of discovery.
On seeing me she scratched her head under her cap with a knitting-needle, and suddenly asked me, could I copy a petition for her. 'With pleasure, I replied, sitting down on the edge of a chair. 'Only mind and make the letters bigger, observed the princess, handing me a dirty sheet of paper; 'and couldn't you do it to-day, my good sir? 'Certainly, I will copy it to-day.
The house was old, rich, well known and well liked. They carried everything in stock from a bar of iron to a knitting-needle. Harris took the books and gradually got to be the buyer. He used to have some ambition, but for the ten years last past he takes the world as easy as if he was a fat old dog." "Do they still make money?" "No, I guess not.
She pointed out with her knitting-needle a sleek white fellow, who flirted his tail and turned an eye, quavering as if he said "La, la, la!" "What does he do?" "He would be at the vines and the corn, monsieur." "Bad gander!" "I switch him," she informed me, like a magistrate. "But that would only make him run." "Also I have a string in my pocket, and I tie him by the leg to a tree."
In the sisterhood she bore the familiar name of Lize. She had been talking about that old case of Riley Brooke and the Widow Glover. "Looks to me," said she, thoughtfully, as she tickled her scalp with a knitting-needle, "that she took the kinks out o' him. He's a good deal more respectable." "Like a panther with his teeth pulled," said a woman who stood by the counter, buying a spool of thread.
Of course, an old lady going about with a pistol, powder- flask, and bullets, and practising on the trunks of the trees in the park, could not pass without observation, and surmises there were on the subject; then her occasional exclamation of "Tremble, villain!" would escape her; and sometimes in the family circle, after sitting for a while in a state of abstraction, she would lift her attenuated hand armed with a knitting-needle or a ball of worsted, and assuming the action of poising a pistol, execute a smart click with her tongue, and say, "I hit him that time."
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