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Updated: May 23, 2025
"Oh, mother, mayn't we keep it?" cried both girls at once. Mother Golden was examining the baby's clothes. "Cambric slip, fine enough, but not so terrible fine. Flannel blanket, machine-embroidered stop! here's a note." She opened a folded paper, and read a few words, written in a carefully rough hand. "His mother is dead, his father a waif.
Even before she had her coffee, she burned the scented scrap of machine-embroidered linen, pressing it down between the logs in the library fireplace; but she could not burn her hate; it burned her!
The act says that the following is a "reasonable excuse for the non-attendance of a child, namely, ... being engaged in necessary operations of husbandry." Ten-year-old Margaret Duncan can be found sitting hunched up on a doorstep in a back street in Belfast. Her skirt and the step are webbed with threads clipped from machine-embroidered linen, or pulled from handkerchiefs for hemstitching.
As he walked along the aisles of his department he seemed to be sailing on a sea of frangipanni, while white clouds, machine-embroidered, floated around him. Too many sweets bring surfeit. He looked upon Hetty Pepper's homely countenance, emerald eyes, and chocolate-colored hair as a welcome oasis of green in a desert of cloying beauty.
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