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He hastily directed the packet, and ran with it at once to the post-office at Charing Cross. On his return he took up the workbox again to examine it more leisurely. He then found there was also a small cavity in the tray under the pincushion, which was movable by a bit of ribbon. Lifting this he uncovered a flattened sprig of myrtle, and a small scrap of crumpled paper.
The other journeymen thought it very amusing, and held me fast by my arms and legs. I screamed aloud, and was as much ashamed as a girl; and then, darting from them, rushed home to my mother, who immediately promised me that I should never go there again. I again visited Madame Bunkeflod, for whose birthday I invented and made a white silk pincushion.
Then I dragged from the bed the gigantic eiderdown pincushion and the two massive pillows, stripping off the pillow-slips lest their whiteness might attract attention whilst they were fulfilling the unusual mission for which I destined them. At the window of the cabinet de toilette I listened a moment. All was silent as the grave.
I always add to these furnishings a good pair of scissors, stationery marked with the house address or the monogram of the person to whom the desk especially belongs, an almanac, and a pincushion! My pincushions are as much a part of the equipment of a desk as the writing things, and they aren't frilly, ugly things.
I did not care particularly for Elmdale, but Alice took a mighty fancy to it. Galileo had, in fact, never quite been himself since he swallowed the pincushion. We did not go to Elmdale at once; we never went there. Elmdale was simply another one of those curious phases in which our dream of a home abounded. With the Elmdale phase "our house" underwent another change. But this was natural enough.
Samson woke the camp at daylight and a merry song was his reveille while he led the horses to their drink. "Have a good night?" Sarah would ask. "Perfect!" he was wont to answer. "But when the smudges went out the mosquiters got to peckin' my face." "Mine feels like a pincushion," Sarah would often answer. "Will you heat up a little water for us to wash with?" "You better believe I will.
Schuyler's desk the pen wiper is a fancy little contraption, but it's clean-I mean it's never had a pen wiped on it. Miss Van Allen's desk hasn't got any pen wiper. On each desk is a pencil sharpener, of the same sort. On each desk is a little pincushion, with the same size of tiny pins, like she was in the habit of pinnin' bills together or sumpum like that.
She had a few shillings which Mr Prothero had given her, and these she put into her pocket, together with a pincushion, and a curious foreign shell, gifts of Owen. She thought of Netta, and of her very different flight from the same house; she fancied that if she had been in her place, no lover, however dear, could have prevailed upon her to leave so good a mother; but she was different.
'Of course it will, said Miss Betsey. 'It's nothing but fancy. What do you call your girl? 'I don't know that it will be a girl, yet, ma'am, said my mother innocently. 'Bless the Baby! exclaimed Miss Betsey, unconsciously quoting the second sentiment of the pincushion in the drawer upstairs, but applying it to my mother instead of me, 'I don't mean that. I mean your servant-girl.
Said the owl in a grumbling voice: "Patchwork Girl has come to life; No one's sweetheart, no one's wife; Lacking sense and loving fun, She'll be snubbed by everyone." "Quite a compliment! Quite a compliment, I declare," exclaimed the donkey, turning to look at Scraps. "You are certainly a wonder, my dear, and I fancy you'd make a splendid pincushion.
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