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Updated: May 17, 2025
They were entitled "The free maids that weave their thread with bones," and one called "the Ideal," represented a latticed cottage window, with roses, honeysuckles, cat, beehives, and all conventional rural delights, around a pretty maiden singing at her lace-pillow; while the other yclept the "Real," showed a den of thin, wizened, half-starved girls, cramped over their cushions in a lace-school.
It revealed the lace-making beauty in all her rural charms. "I see," said Rachel; "it is the same figure, but not the same shaped picture." Without another word, Alick Keith opened the pages at the lace-school; and here again the figures were identical, though the margin had been differently finished off.
The schools and cottages seemed to them so wonderfully large, the children so clean, even their fishiness a form of poetical purity, the people ridiculously well off, and even Mrs. Kelland's lace-school a palace of the free maids that weave their thread with bones. Mr.
However, Lady Temple kept to her desire of seeing Lovedy, and of letting her companion see the rest of the establishment, and they were at last ushered into the room already known to the visitors of the F. U. E. E., where the two children sat as usual in white pinafores, but it struck the ladies that all looked ill, and Lovedy was wrapped in a shawl, and sat cowering in a dull, stupified way, unlike the bright responsive manner for which she had been noted even in her lace-school days.
They had reached a bridge over a side canal, and she stopped, leaning on the parapet. "Did you hear what I said?" asked her companion. "Yes. I'll remember. I suppose you think it your duty. What do you do with yourself?" "I have two orphan children I bring up. And there is my lace-school. It doesn't get on much; but it occupies me." "Are you a Catholic?" "Yes." "Wish I was!" said Kitty.
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