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Otis, and as she spoke the returning wind struck the house, and she gasped as if it had in truth taken her breath away. A few minutes before nine o'clock Mrs. Otis put away her knitting-work and got the great Bible off the desk. "Stop fiddling now, Jim," she said, solemnly. Mrs. Otis spoke with more direct authority in religious matters than in others.
'T is like looking too close into the details of Dinah's kitchen;" and St. Clare lay back on the sofa, and busied himself with his paper. Miss Ophelia sat down, and pulled out her knitting-work, and sat there grim with indignation. She knit and knit, but while she mused the fire burned; at last she broke out "I tell you, Augustine, I can't get over things so, if you can.
Now that she had Nan's busy feet to cover, there was less danger than ever that she should be left without knitting-work, and she deeply enjoyed the child's company, since Nan could give innocent answers to many questions which could never be put to elder members of the Dyer and Thacher neighborhood. Mrs.
"Well, I have been resolving I won't, off and on, these ten years," said St. Clare; "but I haven't, some how, got clear. Have you got clear of all your sins, cousin?" "Cousin Augustine," said Miss Ophelia, seriously, and laying down her knitting-work, "I suppose I deserve that you should reprove my short-comings.
Dinner over, Hepzibah took her knitting-work, a long stocking of gray yarn, for her brother's winter wear, and with a sigh, and a scowl of affectionate farewell to Clifford, and a gesture enjoining watchfulness on Phoebe, went to take her seat behind the counter. It was now the young girl's turn to be the nurse, the guardian, the playmate, or whatever is the fitter phrase, of the gray-haired man.
Madelon, passing across the landing above, looked down and saw him standing there, and knew that what she suspected was true that her brother was mounting guard over her lest she leave the house. She finished her work in the chamber, and came down-stairs with some knitting-work in hand.
Bernard: "hand me my knitting-work." "What! a knight hand knitting-work?" "Certainly," said her father. "It is a knight's business and delight, to be employed in the service of the fair." "Here is your knitting, mamma. I am an enchanted knight, changed by some horrible incantation into a girl," said Anne, resuming her needle.
"One of these days you will look back, and see how happy you are now, and be sorry you didn't prize your parents while you had them." Flyaway rested her rosy cheek on Polly's knee, and watched the gray knitting-work as it came out of the basket.
My sister Fanny told me, long afterwards, that some girls always have white hands, no matter how hard they work. This question interested me more than the political ones raised by the Squire, and I became aware that my answers were getting wild, by his eying me over his spectacles. Rachel finished the clothes, and seated herself, with her knitting-work, at the opposite corner of the fireplace.
She put her knitting-work into his hands. "You must learn how to knit," said she. "What! without using my eyes?" cried Edward. "I can knit with my eyes shut," replied Emily. Then, with her own little hands, she guided Edward’s fingers, while he set about this new occupation. So awkward were his first attempts, that any other little girl would have laughed heartily.
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