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Updated: May 17, 2025
So she gave the old gentleman three kisses, but he caught her in his arms and gave her a dozen at least; after which he found out that the waiter was holding a cup of coffee at his elbow, and Ellen went back to her place with a very good appetite for her breakfast. After breakfast the needlecases were delivered. Both gave the most entire satisfaction. Mrs.
Needlecases, bags, and so forth, must therefore wait another opportunity; and Ellen Chauncey decided it would just make the pleasure so much longer, and was a great improvement on the old plan. "Happy New Years" and pleasant greetings were exchanged, as the party gathered in the breakfast-room; pleasure sat on all faces, except Ellen's, and many a one wore a broad smile as they sat down to table.
The women are dressed in long flannel petticoats and spencer, over which is thrown a sleeveless, short, striped cloak, drawn round the waist by a girdle of broad brass or silver links, to which hang their knives, scissors, needlecases, etc., and with which they often strap their children to their backs; the hair is plaited in two tails, and the neck loaded with strings of coral and glass beads, and great lumps of amber, glass, and agate.
The Sheikh Makouran has calculated the expense from Ghadames to Kanou, and back, for me, at two hundred dollars. The Moors are essentially children in some things. Young men, full grown, carry about with them in their pockets a little bit of white sugar to suck, stowed away in needlecases. To-day, a ghafalah of Touaricks, twenty persons, left for Ghat. They took my letter for the Governor.
Or, "Prague oh yes, mother got the most enchanting old silver chatelaine there, with all kinds of things hanging to it, needlecases and watches and scent-bottles, all solid, and so beautifully chased." Or again, "Berlin was horrid, we thought; but the amber is better and cheaper than anywhere else, great strings of beads, of the largest size and that beautiful pale yellow, for a hundred francs.
Thar's not a housewife along the trail as hasn't gotten suthin' as you brought her from England cloth for a frock, trimmin' fer a hat, a box of scented soap, a machine fer mincin' meat. An' the children the boys an' gels what about them, eh? You brought 'em toys an' dolls an' pictur' books, whips, boxes of paints, needlecases with scissors an' thimble all complete.
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