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And Miss Debby spoke the last word as if she had meant it partly for her thread, which had again knotted and caught, and she snatched the offered scissors without a word, but said peaceably, after a minute or two, that the thread wasn't what it used to be. The next needleful proved more successful, and the listener asked if the Ashbys were getting on comfortably at present.
So then Robert said, as in honour bound: 'Sneak yourself Anthea and me weren't so goldfishy as you two were, so we got changed quicker, and we've had time to think it over, and if you ask me 'I didn't ask you, said Jane, biting off a needleful of thread as she had always been strictly forbidden to do.
The old lady answered complacently, as she bit off a fresh needleful of thread and looked at her companion over her spectacles: "Yes, dearie, I expect I am. I can do more'n that, too. I can keep up a powerful thinking." "About what, pray?" "How that life is a patchwork quilt. All the colors of the rainbow, and some that any self-respectin' rainbow would scorn to own.
Her fingers twitched, she "pshawed," and "oh deared," ran the needle in and out and in irregularly, jerked the thread, and finally gave a fretful pull when she came to the end of the first needleful, which tore a fresh hole in the stuff and puckered all she had darned, so that it was not fit to be seen. Wealthy looked in just then, and was scandalized at the condition of the work.
And I am quite confident, that, if all the four hundred muscles of your present body were twisted together by a rope-maker, they would not furnish that patient young laborer with a needleful of thread.
You just take a needleful of that yellow worsted and start tracking across a couple of yards of red and pathless desert, and see where you come out. I know, because I've done it. I'm a pioneer. But if I ever tackle another job like that it's going to be a crazy-quilt!" And Joe considered, in spite of the din which answered him, that his challenge was ample.
After he had risen and gone off rather helplessly to seek his t'other trousers, Amarita did glance after him with a tentative movement from her chair. It almost seemed as if she repented and meant to go on the quest herself. Old Mis' Meade, translating this, held her breath and waited; but Amarita only sighed and took a needleful of thread.
"Let me sew it on, Your High Well-born," he cried. Seeing our surprise, he added, "God is my witness, yay Bogu! I am a tailor by trade." His rent and faded coat did not seem to indicate anything of the sort, but I thought I would try him, as I happened to have a needleful of silk and a thimble in my pocket. I gave them to him accordingly.
So then Robert said, as in honour bound, "Sneak yourself Anthea and me weren't so gold-fishy as you two were, so we got changed quicker, and we've had time to think it over, and if you ask me" "I didn't ask you," said Jane, biting off a needleful of thread as she had always been strictly forbidden to do. My nurse told me this, and she told me also about the earth going round the sun.
"There is plenty of men's clothing," he began. "Unfortunately there isn't another island," she said, severely. "No. I meant that it might be possible to er contrive some sort of rig that will serve all purposes." "But all my thread is gone. I have barely a needleful left." "In that case we must fall back on our supply of hemp." "I suppose that might be made to serve," she said.
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