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Mr. Gryce's hand which had been stretched out towards the hitherto untouched decanter before him, suddenly dropped. "You deny then," said he, "all connection between yourself and the woman, lady or sewing-girl, who occupied that room above our heads for eleven months previous to the Sunday morning I first had the honor to make your acquaintance."
No doubt, you have come from our mother the superior?" "Yes, yes, sister," answered the sempstress, casting down her eyes; "would you have the goodness to show me the way out?" "Come with me." The sewing-girl followed the nun, trembling at every step lest she should meet the superior, who would naturally have inquired the cause of her long stay in the convent.
"Yes," answered Agricola, "for half an hour he has been with my father and me." "What happiness I shall have in seeing him again," said the sewing-girl. "He doubtless came upstairs while I had gone for a brief space to your mother, to ask if I could be useful in any way on account of the young ladies; but they have been so fatigued that they still sleep.
Grivois took her departure, a few minutes before Mother Bunch left. After she had again endeavored to cheer up the orphans, the sewing-girl descended the stairs, not without difficulty, for, in addition to the parcel, which was already heavy, she had fetched down from her own room the only blanket she possessed thus leaving herself without protection from the cold of her icy garret.
I added that he must at once procure me a sewing-girl between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, she was to be a virgin, and it was necessary that she should, as well as every person in the house, keep the secret faithfully, in order that no suspicion of our proceedings should reach the Inquisition, or all would be lost.
Walters?" asked the sheriff, sternly, meeting her and bringing the handcuffs. "There's somebody in my bed!" she cried, wringing her hands. "I believe it's the devil." "It's my 'coon," said the carpenter, laughing; for by this time we were all gathered together. "What a dear 'coon!" said the sewing-girl. "Oh, Mrs. Walters! You are like Little Red Riding-hood!" said Sylvia.
He determined to recollect this presentiment. Delicate natures sometimes display in the smallest things the most charming instincts of grace and goodness. Thus, when the sewing-girl was shedding abundant and sweet tears of gratitude, Adrienne took a richly embroidered handkerchief, and dried the pale and melancholy face.
In another case you observe only a lump of coal, a phial of pitch, a flask of oil; and the necromancer of the place has dipped his rod down into the central darkness of the earth and drawn up light like the day's. Yet beyond: an iron stirrup and a slender spur, and the sewing-girl has but to set her foot there and escape the shapes that dog her.
Autumn leaves studded with paper roses festooned the what-not and the chromo of the Rock of Ages, and a wreath of yellow immortelles was twined about the clock which Evelina revered as the mysterious agent of her happiness. At the table sat Miss Mellins, profusely spangled and bangled, her head sewing-girl, a pale young thing who had helped with Evelina's outfit, Mr. and Mrs.
"Ah! so much the better he could not have come at a fitter moment." "Mistress Frances Baudoin?" asked the magistrate. "Yes, sir it is I," said Frances. Then, perceiving the pale and trembling sewing-girl, who did not dare to come forward, she stretched out her arms to her.
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