Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: October 18, 2025
If she is always requiring assistance, and cannot make the simplest gown without a needle-woman to help her, and will not attempt a smart dress at all, or who makes it so slow that either the occasion for which it is required slips by, or a much longer notice is necessary than the most fashionable dressmaker would demand in the very height of the London season, instead of being useful, she is an incumbrance.
Fond of mischief, ever suspicious, always on the alert for evil, utterly unscrupulous and malicious, she was an altogether admirable attendant for a lady of rank and fashion, her skill as a coiffeur and needle-woman always obtaining for her the wages she so justly deserved.
Felicia stood, absurdly little beside her plump employer, and spoke the first words she'd been given opportunity to utter, "Good morning, Madame," she said in her clear contralto, "I think you do not understand. The Exchange should have told you that I am a needle-woman that I do only hand work I do not understand sewing machines "
Look at her, sir; and love her as I love her, honor as I honor. She has one of those hearts for which we are seeking." "And which, thank heaven, we are still able to find, my dear young lady!" said Rodin, as he bowed to the needle-woman. The latter raised her eyes slowly, and locked at the Jesuit.
"Mamma says I am quite a good needle-woman," Elsie replied with a smile and a blush, "and if I am not it is no fault of hers. She took great pains to teach me. I cut out a shirt for papa once, and made every stitch of it myself." "And she can run the machine too," said Lottie, "though her papa won't let her do so for more than half an hour at a time, lest she should hurt herself."
Madeleine smilingly bade them to be seated; then passed around the table and spoke to every needle-woman in turn, inquiring after the personal health of each, or asking questions about her family, for she knew the histories of all; and then learning particulars concerning the work that had been done, and the work in hand.
I have brought a maid from Paris, a wonderful needle-woman." "You are exceedingly good, my dear. But, really, I haven't the conscience " "Haven't the conscience!" repeated Varvara Pavlovna, in a reproachful tone. "If you wish to make me happy, you will dispose of me as if I belonged to you." Maria Dmitrievna fairly gave way. "Vous êtes charmante," she said.
I was immediately sent by my aunt to the parish-school, where, being naturally tractable and apt to learn I soon acquired the rudiments of a good education, and besides, I learnt also to become an expert needle-woman.
I went into Bow Street Police Court to-day, intending to speak to the sitting magistrate about some children respecting whom he had asked for information, when I was attracted by the face of a woman who was being examined; she was poorly clad, but evidently respectable like a better class of needle-woman. I never saw a face express such despair.
I was a needle-woman, and earned from twenty to thirty sous a day. Whatever I earned I gave my mother. I had never had a lover, never thought of such a thing, and when my goodness was praised I felt inclined to laugh. I had been brought up from a child never to look at young men when I met them in the street, and never to reply to them when they addressed any impudence to me.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking