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Updated: June 22, 2025
"No perhaps I never know." He had seated himself and now looked scornfully at the gray knitting-work that mother and daughter were swiftly making from heavy wool, working at it with long needles. "What is that?" he asked. "Coverlets." "For the poor?" "Yes, of course." "It is very ugly." "It is very warm."
I lent him a bit of knitting-work that I happened to have brought with me, with which he kept down his locks, else astray, and walked back with him. "You are not offended?" he asked, as we drew near to the door. "Oh, no!" Sophie hid something that had been very close to her eyes, as we went in. My brother-in-law gave me back my strip of knitting-work, and went upstairs.
This was the night-work of the female portion of the family, and numerous stockings of various colors and in various stages of progress were stuck about the walls of the room, which boasted neither ceiling nor lath and plaster, making convenient receptacles between the posts and weather-boarding for knitting-work, turkey-tail fans, bunches of herbs for drying, etc.
Ruth laid down her knitting-work, and was in the back porch in a moment. "Ruth, what does thee think?" said Rachel. "Father says Eliza's husband is in the last company, and will be here tonight." A burst of joy from the little Quakeress interrupted the speech.
But the greatest shock I received was the sight of the knitting-work, with which I had so inconsiderately meddled the evening before, lying in ravelled heaps on the table, as if torn to bits in a frenzy.
There was some knitting-work on her lap, with brown wool and curiously shaped needles; one foot rested on the base of the cradle, which she rocked from time to time. At his approach she rose up, stark and hieratic, without a trace of a friendly smile on her countenance. Was the lady indoors? No, she was out. Out! Where?
But good-by just now! Keep a strict lookout! I shall come back soon." And she did come back soon, this worthy woman, with triumphant bearing and flashing eyes, looking as the cat looks when it has a mouse in its soft velvety paws, and is going to push its poisonous claws into the quivering flesh. She took her knitting-work up and bade Tison to go up again to her post.
And that is why we must be awake and on our guard, that no aristocrat and no loyalist tie left, but that they all be guillotined, all! There, take your place on my chair, and take my knitting-work. Ah! if it could speak to you as it does to me if it could tell you what heads we two have seen fall, young and old, handsome, distinguished it would be fine sport for you and make you laugh.
But I knew the position of the old minister's arm-chair, and also where his wife sat with her knitting-work, and how to avoid his two daughters one a stout country lass, and the other a consumptive girl. Groping through the gloom, I found my own place next to that of the son, a learned collegian who had come home to keep school in the village during the winter vacation.
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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