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Updated: September 29, 2025
As Peter stood up he saw that the patched quilts were all askew over her shapeless bulk. Evidently, she had not been resting well. Peter's conscience smote him again for worrying his mother with his courtship of Cissie, yet what could he do? If he had wooed any other girl in the world, she would have been equally jealous and grieved.
I hope he slept warm anyhow. I piled on comforters and quilts enough to smother him." Her attempt at changing the subject was successful. Emily's next question concerned Jedediah. "What are you goin' to do with him, Auntie?" she asked. "He must stay here, mustn't he?" "Course he must. I'll never trust him out of my sight again.
The old bags and baskets had been neatly piled in one corner, and quilts had been spread over them to hide their ugliness from view. The wind blew gently in the window that the hail had broken. The floor had been scrubbed clean and white the window, what was left of it was shining. She was reminded of Polly everywhere she looked. The mat under her feet was one that Polly had braided.
Again he listened, but his mother had not been awakened. Ephraim crept back to his bedroom. There he sat on the edge of his bed and devoured his pie. The rich spicy compound and the fat plums melted on his tongue, and the savor thereof delighted his very soul. Then Ephraim got into bed and pulled the quilts over him. For the first and only occasion in his life he had had a good time.
" in fierce response to his protesting gesture "It's true!" He tried to speak, but this was far too big for words which did not come straight from the soul. "Do you know what I am doing now?" She laughed and none of it had told as much as that laugh revealed. "I am making patchwork quilts!
There was painting on china and satin and velvet and silk and every other known fabric, and the walls were hung with homespun blankets, quilts and floor rugs. Notwithstanding the growing display and keen competition that each successive fair brought, there were those who had been winners of first prizes ever since the Elmbrook show was instituted, and would probably always be.
Aside from a simple white dress to be married in, and two calico dresses for house wear, Elizabeth put her own sewing away and helped Aunt Susan repair her quilts and carpets which had suffered badly in the cyclone. Two weeks had to be given up to the plastering of the remodelled house, and all the furniture was revarnished by their own hands.
I don't like it" she spoke very softly for she knew her aunt disapproved of the habit of talking to one's self "I don't like patchin' and I for certain don't like red and green quilts! I got one on my bed now and it hurts my eyes still in the morning when I get awake. I'd like a pretty blue and white one for my bed. Mebbe Aunt Maria will leave me make one when I get this one sewed.
They went at once and informed the king, who said to them: "See whether there is anything under the quilts or not." So they went and searched under each quilt, and under the last they found one hair, which they immediately took and showed to the king. And the king summoned the specialist in cotton, and finding the mark exactly corresponding to the hair, was filled with extreme astonishment.
Even if it was only what she had got in her rag-bag, she would give it to one person to make a big quilt of, rather than give it to two persons to make two little quilts. So Sarah and me, we knew that the money might come to either or neither of us, but go to both it wouldn't.
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