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And the pretty girl in the straw bonnet with pink ribbon, and her mamma the devourer of lobsters, had both agreed that when he was in "spirits" there was nothing like that Mr. Sam. He had crammed the cab with trophies won from the bankrupt proprietors of the sticks hard by, and with countless pincushions, wooden-apples, backy-boxes, Jack-in-the-boxes, and little soldiers.
There there's a doll that looks just fit for little curly-headed Annie Langley, don't you think so, Mrs. Larpent?" The price of the doll was a shilling, and there were quickly added to it, boxes of toys, elaborate bead-work pincushions, polished blue and green boxes, the identical writing-case even a small Noah's ark.
There was a fair at Havre in the Quartier Saint-Francois, and we have eaten up all we could lay our hands on, broken all Aunt Sally's pipes, and purchased all the china horrors and hideous pincushions we could find. They are all over there in the break. We are going to raffle them at Etretat for the poor." The Prince tried to excuse himself and move on, but the little Baroness held him tight.
And the pretty girl in the straw bonnet with pink ribbon, and her mamma the devourer of lobsters, had both agreed that when he was in "spirits" there was nothing like that Mr. Sam. He had crammed the cab with trophies won from the bankrupt proprietors of the Sticks hard by, and with countless pincushions, wooden apples, backy-boxes, Jack-in-the-boxes, and little soldiers.
Tragic, in spite of a mouthful of pins which is a woman's undoubted preference, no matter how many befrilled pincushions entreat a division of spoils, she turned her face with its import of sudden things to her sister in explanation. "I was writing a letter and it blew out of the window!" "Well, if it did " "But, don't you see? I was writing to Christopher!
I knew then that Aggie Tuttle might just as well close down her Rebekkah-at-the-Well dive, and that no one was going to take any more chances on pincushions and tidies and knitted bed slippers. About a third of the crowd was edged up to the bar and keeping Louis Meyer and his father busy with drink orders, and the other two-thirds was huddled round a roulette layout across the room.
'You make pincushions, said Charley. 'What else do I make? 'Pen-wipers, said Bradley Headstone. 'Ha! ha! What else do I make? You're a schoolmaster, but you can't tell me. 'You do something, he returned, pointing to a corner of the little bench, 'with straw; but I don't know what. 'Well done you! cried the person of the house. 'I only make pincushions and pen-wipers, to use up my waste.
Never a breakfast did he sit down to, without gravely inquiring if they were sure there was no sawdust in the porridge. Not a tweak of rheumatism did he feel but he vowed it was due to a needle, travelling about his body. And Aunt Olivia was warned to label all the pincushions in the house. "Contents, sawdust; not intended for puddings."
There was no blinking the fact that "Mother" had been provided with pincushions to repletion. And most of these made the needles rusty, from being stuffed with damp pig-meal, when the pigs and the pincushions were both being fattened for Christmas. Madam Liberality sat with her little pale face on her hand and her slate before her, making her calculations. She wondered what emery-powder cost.
It was impossible to burst the door, even if it had been mannerly; it was impossible I should leap from the window, being seven stories above ground. All I could do was to crane over the close and watch for their reappearance from the stair. It was little to see, being no more than the tops of their two heads, each on a ridiculous bobbin of skirts, like to a pair of pincushions.
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