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Had she not hanging over her bed a small paper-cutting of a profile jet black, but not blacker than the face it represented of one who would have been her own husband in the small years of this century, if the vessel in which he went to sea, like Jamie in the ballad, had not sailed away and never come back to land?
I had taken it from the museum, and used it for paper-cutting. Upon the steel blade was graven, in golden letters, "Buona notte;" and "Buona notte! buona notte," I kept incoherently murmuring. "Have you no other question to address to me?" she asked, in a tremulus voice. I shook my head, and pointed to the door, and, like a wooden puppet, she turned and disappeared through it.
Had she not hanging over her bed a paper-cutting of a profile, jet black, but not blacker than the face it represented of one who would have been her own husband in the small years of this century, if the vessel in which he went to sea, like Jamie in the ballad, had not sailed away and never come back to land?
He could do but little at his paper-cutting now, but still he persevered; and his toil was well repaid, too, when he gave his mother the scanty payment which he received at the end of the week, and felt that he had done his best that he had helped her forward that he was no longer an idler supported by her sorrow but that he had braced the burden of labour on to his own shoulders also, weak as they were, and had taken his place, though dying, among the manful workers of the world.
The paper-cutting was not wholly laid aside though; in the early morning, and in the evening, and often late into the night, the thin, wan fingers were busy about their task; but the middle of the day was snatched like an hour of sleep in the midst of pain garnered up like a fountain of sweet waters in the wilderness; for then it was that little Jessie came for her Latin lesson, which she used to learn so well, and take such pleasure in, and be doubly diligent about, because poor Herbert Lawson was ill, and vexation would do him harm.
They will illustrate their games and lessons by means of simple modelling and paper-cutting. The older girls will dress dolls for the little ones to their own fancy, using their own discretion as regards material, style of dress, and method of dress-making. And so on.
As the story was read the different characters were subjects for free paper-cutting exercises. The story was also dramatized and acted out over and over again. The different figures to be cut were assigned to or chosen by the different children, the teacher taking care that no characters were omitted.
Had she not hanging over her bed a paper-cutting of a profile, jet black, but not blacker than the face it represented of one who would have been her own husband in the small years of this century, if the vessel in which he went to sea, like Jamie in the ballad, had not sailed away and never come back to land?
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