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But I am afraid it may be a somewhat uneasy idleness, and that there will not be much beside her knitting-work to remind her of the old routine.
The whole family were impatient to see them and their excellent mother. Grandma lost her spectacles very often that afternoon, and every time she went to the window to look out, the ball of her knitting-work followed her, as Grace said, "like a little kitten." There was great joy when the stage really drove up to the door.
She always has her knitting-work, or sewing with her, and can often be seen making her own garments. What are her dreams? Possibly of a happy home in a distant land, a long time ago, when she was a little girl, and had a father to bless her, and a mother to love. A brace of omnibuses come thundering down the pavement, and she awakes.
Marilla listened for a time with more or less interest, but at last she took one of her school-books, with slight ostentation, and went over to study by the lamp. Mrs. Hender had brought her knitting-work, a blue woolen stocking, out of a drawer, and sat down serene and unruffled, prepared to keep awake as late as possible.
"Thee may get in my lap, Alice, and tell me all about it," said grandma Read, laying down her knitting-work. Dotty curled herself into a little heap in her grandmother's arms. "My head aches," said she, "and I love to lay it against your soft kerjif." "Well, dear, so thee may. Now, tell me what made thee go on the water?"
He used to fuss with some knitting-work he got hold of somehow; he was good-natured as could be, and sometimes he would make 'em fetch him the cat, because Patience used to have a cat that set in her lap while she knit. I wasn't there then, you know, but they used to tell me about it. Folks used to call him Miss Dan'el Gunn. "He'd been that way some time when I went over.
I made straight for the Schloss; which is pretty much like the Garden-house in Bornim: only there is a rampart round it; and an old Tower, considerably in ruins, serves as a Gateway to the House. "Coming on the Drawbridge, I perceived an old stocking-knitter disguised as Grenadier, with his cap, cartridge-box and musket laid to a side, that they might not hinder him in his knitting-work.
To-night, while Rebecca lay sobbing in her little bedroom, the mother knitted assiduously until nearly midnight upon a wide linen lace with which to trim dimity curtains for the daughter's bridal bedstead. Deborah needed no lamplight for this knitting-work; she was so familiar with it, having knitted yards with her thoughts elsewhere, that she could knit without seeing her needles.
"Yes," chimed in Willy Snow, "and he asks, 'Is school took up? just as if it was knitting-work that was on needles." "How he rolls his r's!" said Peter Grant. "You can't say hor-r-se the way he does! I'll bet the ain't a boy can do it, unless it's a Cahoojack." Peter meant Hoosier. "Well, I wouldn't be seen saying hoss," returned Horace, with some spirit; "that's Yankee."
Barbara had made peach-dumpling for dinner, and of course Aunt Trixie was the last and crowning suggestion. It was not far to send, and she was not long in coming, with her second-best cap pinned up in a handkerchief, and her knitting-work and her spectacles in her bag. The Marchbankses never made sofa-covers of brown waterproof, nor had Miss Trixies to spend the day.
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