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Updated: October 10, 2025
The next morning, when Mona went into the sewing-room, she found a tiny vase filled with choice flowers upon her table. She suspected that Mr. Hamblin might have been the donor, and she was annoyed that he should presume to take such a liberty upon so slight an acquaintance.
If you heard sewing-room talk you would call us parrots or worse. If you knew the sewing-room lives you would feel as I do." He did not know what to say. "For myself," straightening herself with unconscious pride, "it has not been so much.
I took Mollie upstairs and showed her the broken lock, and she stooped to brush some white hairs from her dark wool skirt. "Where they come from?" she asked suddenly. Then, picking at the reindeer skin upon the floor under her feet, she said, nodding her head decidedly, "I know. He Sim come to me in sewing-room, hair all same this on two knees of blank pants.
"Thursday one, Friday two, Saturday three, Monday four, Tuesday five, Wednesday six, Thursday seven. Plenty of time to have my new silk made. I'll go and speak to Agnes at once." She tripped away to the sewing-room in search of the little seamstress. The door was ajar; she pushed it open, but paused in astonishment at the sight which met her eyes.
In the thick of the town the ladies of the city have furnished and opened a reading-room, sewing-room, conversation-room, or what not, where young girls, who work for a living and have no opportunity for any culture, at home or elsewhere, may spend their evenings.
Above we could hear the captain's voice in angry altercation with the men, they denying everything, of course, even the stone throwing, with the window as evidence against them. It was half-past four and I had slept little. There was no fire in the house, and I was cold; so, throwing down a few skins in a corner of the sewing-room, with my blankets upon them, I covered myself to get warm.
Montague came into the sewing-room all animation, and beaming with smiles. "Ruth, I am going to ask a great favor of you," she said: "I wonder if you will oblige me." "Certainly, Mrs. Montague, I shall be very glad to do so, if it is within my power," Mona readily responded.
"No doubt, my dear; for I am already proud of you in that capacity," he said, throwing her a smiling kiss, then hurrying away. Zoe summoned Aunt Dicey, the housekeeper, gave her orders for the day, and the needed supplies from pantry and storeroom, they went to the sewing-room, to give some directions to Christine and Alma.
Miss Carr's maid was employed making the alterations which were requisite in the dresses from London, so that Lettice was continually being summoned to the sewing-room, and when she was not being "tried on" she had many letters to write acknowledging the gifts which arrived in such numbers.
In the case of the loft, it is well to equip it as a simple gymnasium. It is mistaken economy to use the living-room as a dining-room, since this interferes with the orderly work of the house, no less than with the comfort of the family. It may with propriety, however, be made also the sewing-room, and, in general, the mother's managerial office.
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