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Walking accordingly through the corner door, he stepped into Madame Wang's apartment. Here he discovered several waiting-maids, dosing with their needlework clasped in their hands. Madame Wang was asleep on the cool couch in the inner rooms. Chin Ch'uan-erh was sitting next to her massaging her legs. But she too was quite drowsy, and her eyes wore all awry.
Not to speak of his prejudice against Mr Wentworth, the Rector was moved by the sight of Elsworthy's distress; but then his wife, who unluckily had brought her needlework into the library on this particular morning, and who was in the interest of the Curate of St Roque's, was seated watchful by the window, occasionally looking up, and entirely cognisant, as Mr Morgan was aware, of everything that happened.
Cowperwood, noticing the persistence of its presence there and the fact that she drank heavily at table, commented upon it. "You're not taking too much of that, are you, Aileen?" he questioned one evening, watching her drink down a tumbler of whisky and water as she sat contemplating a pattern of needlework with which the table was ornamented.
Shining white silk with white embroidered chrysanthemum flowers on it women's kimonos with clusters of blue flowers on the sleeves and skirt landscapes, fishing-boats, ducks and pigeons, monkeys and tigers, all painted or embroidered on silk herons and cranes in thick raised needlework on screens in black frames everything is good and tasteful.
Thus a girl quitting the Lycee would have attained, first and foremost, a thorough knowledge of her own language and its literature; she would also possess a fair notion of French common law, of domestic economy, including needlework of the more useful kind, the cutting out and making up of clothes, and the like. Gymnastics are practised daily.
Marie moved quietly about, set the saucepan again on the stove, and taking some needlework from a box, sat down near her husband, stitching rapidly. Every now and then she glanced at him, and her mind was tenderly busy over his concerns all the while, so that tears would have stood in her eyes if they had not had other work to do. "How sad the poor fellow looks!" she thought.
Thereupon, without any semblance of haste, in the most easy and natural manner possible, she deposited her needlework on a little table, rose from her chair, and turned off the tap with a light but firm hand. "There! it's done," said she. "But why didn't you do it yourself, my friend?" He had watched her in bewilderment, chilled to the bones, as if touched by the hand of death.
Send thou the gems from off thy bucklers, and I and my maidens will work them with gold embroideries into the silk." Thus the sweet maiden dismissed her brother, and sending for her thirty maidens who were skilled in needlework she bade them sew their daintiest stitches, for here were robes to be made for the King and Sir Siegfried ere they went to bring Queen Brunhild into Rhineland.
The sergeant-major had barely time to throw together the few things that he intended to take with him. "Ida," he shouted through the door, "cut some bread and butter for my breakfast, and send it over to me in the orderly-room." Julie was as usual on the sofa, which was pushed close up to the table. Her sister was sitting doing some needlework.
"I did not mean him to wait long enough for that needlework to be finished," she said, lifting her hands to stroke the backward curves of her hair, while she rose from her seat and stood still. "But if you don't feel able to decide?" said Mrs. Davilow, sympathizingly. "I must decide," said Gwendolen, walking to the writing-table and seating herself.
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