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Updated: June 12, 2025
There was the little garden and the sweet-peas she had sown, just showing green above the earth: would she never see them bloom? There on the window sill were her knitting-pins and a half-finished stocking: was it possible that Lilac would never hear them click again in her busy fingers? There, most familiar object of all, was the clothes line.
If Tou Tou were here, she would overwhelm me with officious questions would stare me crazy, but Barbara averts her eyes, and asks nothing. We have been sitting in perfect silence for a long while; no noise but the click of Barbara's knitting-pins, the low flutter of the fire-flame, and the sort of suppressed choked inward bark, with which Vick attacks a phantom tomcat in her dreams.
He lingered, discoursing on this topic, while Mary repacked his parcels, and his aunt gave him a message to Jane Beckett, to send the carpenter to No. 5 before Mary's visit of inspection; but she prophesied that he would forget; and, in fact, it was no good augury that he left the knitting-pins behind him on the table, and Mary was only just in time to catch him with them at the front door.
"It's fair noo," she said, glancing through the window, "and there's a bonny moon!" "Aye," responded Peter. "There's bin nae sna' this guid while." The party had settled down to silent contemplation of the cheery fire, the men enjoying their pipes, Maggie Jean busy with her knitting. No sound disturbed the peaceful calm except the regular faint click of the rapidly moving knitting-pins.
'I saw it at a shop in London, he said, 'and thought the Faithfull sisters would like to be reminded of their West Indian feasts. And, 'to make the balance true, he had in the other pocket a lambswool shawl of gorgeous dyes, with wools to make the like, and the receipt, in what he called 'female algebra, the long knitting-pins under his arm like a riding-whip.
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