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"And," said he, "if you are a friend of theirs, perhaps you will take charge of these things, which they have left behind them?" So saying, he pointed to a table at the back of the hall, on which were lying the black bag, the black needle-case, the black pin cushion, and the black pen-wiper.
Still my husband, cap in hand, persisted in trying to accompany the alcalde, and seeing this my lady, filled with rage and vexation, pulled out a big pin, or, I rather think, a bodkin, out of her needle-case and drove it into his back with such force that my husband gave a loud yell, and writhing fell to the ground with his lady.
'Now, sais I, 'I'll mend my trowsers I tore, a goin' to see the ruin on the road yesterday; so I takes out Sister Sall's little needle-case, and sows away till I got them to look considerable jam agin; 'and then, sais I, 'here's a gallus button off, I'll jist fix that, and when that was done, there was a hole to my yarn sock, so I turned too and darned that. "'Now, sais I, 'how goes it?
And old Jerry, that's the head groom, you know, he's the kindest of all. He says I'm like his little granddaughter that died, and wherever we go he almost always buys me a present. Look what he gave me this morning," putting her hand into the bosom of her frock and pulling out an ivory needle-case. "I keep it here for fear it'll get lost.
"Don't mar my ideal of you, Verry, by growing witty." She shrugged her shoulders. "I guess you found it washed ashore, among the rocks; was it bruised?" "A man gave it to me." "A merman, who fills the sea-halls with a voice of power?" "May be." "Tut, Ben gave it to you. It is a kind of housekeepish present; did he add scissors and needle-case?"
There was a Paris present for every servant at home, and a needle-case even for Cherry Elwood, for which Ethel thanked her with a fervency wanting in her own case. She accomplished consulting her father on her scruples, and he set her mind at rest.
We got such beautiful relics of General Chasse! Didn't we, Mrs. Jones?" "Indeed we did," said Mrs. Jones, bringing out from beneath the skirts of her dress and ostensibly displaying a large black bag. "And I've got such a beautiful needle-case," said the broad-back, displaying her prize. "I've been making it up all the morning." And she handed over the article to Miss Macmanus.
Choulette, even harsher than was his habit, asked for thread and needles that he might mend his clothes. He grumbled because he had lost a needle-case which he had carried for thirty years in his pocket, and which was dear to him for the sweetness of the reminiscences and the strength of the good advice that he had received from it.
Then the lady with the back, seeing that the desecration of the article had been completed, plucked up heart of courage and put in her little request; "I think I might have a needle-case out of it," said she, "just as a suvneer of the poor general" and a long fragment cut rapidly out of the waistband afforded her unqualified delight. Mamma, with the hot face and untidy hair, came next.
Then was the time to fondle the little gifts from home; simple things, the little pin-cushion, the needle-case, with thread and buttons, the embroidered tobacco bag, and the knitted gloves.
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