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He was too old for a labourer, he had no art or craftsmanship; his little money was gone in foolish speculations, and he was dependent on his granddaughter's slight earnings from music teaching and needlework. But he rented an acre of ground from Finley, and grew vegetables; he gathered driftwood from the river for his winter fire, and made up the accounts of the storekeeper occasionally.
The grooms, leading each horse, are equally magnificently attired, their dresses being also one mass of needlework of gold on velvet. Equerries, outriders, and military guards precede and surround the royal carriages, and the cavalcade is lengthened by having a coche de respecto, caparisoned with equal splendour, following each one in which a royal person is being conveyed.
Once or twice he asked Mary if she did not want to sell the clock the one that her late husband had made for his mother, but Mary shrank from the thought of selling this, until at last there was nothing else left that Didlum would buy, and one week, when Mary was too ill to do any needlework it had to go. He gave them ten shillings for it.
One of the greatest trials of Penelope's life when she was ten years old was music, and the other, needlework; she could not see any possible use in learning either of them, and none of the arguments put forward by nurse, governess, or mother, made the least impression on her mind.
Clad in a morning gown of gray and silver, her hair piled in a Psyche knot, she had in her lap on this occasion a Java basket filled with some attempt at Norwegian needlework. "Bevy," she said, "you remember Kilmer Duelma, don't you? Wasn't he at the Haggertys' last summer when you were there?"
And poor souls, who can blame them for submitting! What a fate is theirs, if they don't manage to catch a man! Gossip and needlework are only slow poison." "Now you're spiteful. But I'll tell YOU something. Such friendships as you speak of are only possible where the woman is old or ugly or abnormal, in some way: a man-woman, or a clever woman, or some other freak of nature.
You can't conceive how borne and prejudiced every one her who is used to something better! Don't you love art needlework? 'Maude Sefton has been working Goosey Goosey Gander on a toilet-cover. 'Oh! how sweet! We never get any new patterns here! Do come in and see, I don't know which to take; I brought three beginnings home to choose from, and I am quite undecided. 'Mrs.
They began with Latin, as that gave a better foundation for all else. Then there was enough of arithmetic to keep household accounts and to compute interest. Madam Wetherill had found her knowledge most useful, as she had a large estate to manage and had no such objections as many of the women of that period. There was the spinet and singing of songs, dancing and doing fine needlework.
Some needlework over which she had been busy fell to the floor. A rush of color came into her cheeks. "Oh, father, father!" she exclaimed, "how delightful it is to see you again! Oh, how glad we are! Is little Freda really better? How is Mrs. Harvey? And have you come back to stay, father?" "I can't answer such a lot of questions all together, child," said the doctor, with a smile.
I am afraid you must have been bored." "Thank you. I had my work." It was an exquisite piece of art needlework. Water-lilies and yellow irises on a purple ground. She confessed it was her own design. "And books?" He took up Schlegel's Philosophy of History in the original. "You read German?" "O yes." "And Italian? and French? and Sanscrit without doubt?"
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