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Updated: June 16, 2025
"You show a great deal of vanity in keeping near you such an accomplished creature," said a lady to the mistress of the house. "Ah! my dear, some day perhaps you will find yourself jealous of me in possessing Celestine." "She must be endowed with very rare qualities, I suppose? She perhaps dresses you well?" "Oh, no, very badly!" "She sews well?" "She never touches her needle." "She is faithful?"
Perhaps the most clever nest-builder is a tiny Indian bird, called the "Tailor," because it actually sews leaves together, using both its bill and its feet, to make a safe hiding-place for its eggs, no bigger than peas, where neither snake nor monkey shall find them.
Miss Margery paused a moment at the door of the Callahans' neighbor, the 'nice colored lady. "Do you happen to know," she inquired, "where Mrs. Callahan was last Thursday afternoon?" "She was visitin', lady," was the ready answer. "She took the biggest children to see a lady she sews for that's give them a lot of things. I had them three youngest children under my feet all afternoon.
Tell her it will be of use to her when she sews her mocassins. Open it and shew her what is inside." "She says she will be able to work faster and better, and wishes to look at your foot, that she may be grateful; so put your foot out, Miss Percival." Mary did so; the Indian girl examined it, and smiled and nodded her head.
She keeps the accounts, writes out the bills, superintends the linen, and sews on the general shirt-buttons. Think of having such a woman at home to sew on one's shirt-buttons! But peace, peace, thou foolish heart! Miss Raby is the Doctor's niece.
The railway and steamship carry his gospel, and the airship gives wings to the same good news. Telegraph and telephone flash it, and wireless waves set the ether over whole continents and oceans aquiver with the messages of Jesus Christ. The sewing machine sews for him, the typewriter writes for him, and even battle ships and bayonets may fight for him.
"She sits and sews and sews," wrote Dowie. "She sewed beautifully even before she was out of the nursery. I have never seen a picture of a little saint sewing. If I had, perhaps I should say she looked like it." Coombe read the letter to his old friend at Eaton Square. There was a pause as he refolded it. After the silence he added as out of deep thinking, "I wish that I could see her."
"Do you, sweetheart? Well, then, maybe I might better look again. What else have you in the way of Costumes, Mr. Ganger?" Dogger stepped up. "He hasn't got a single thing worth a cent; he buys these pieces down in Elizabeth Street, out of push-carts, and Jane Hoggson's mother sews them together.
A well-bred Snob is just as secretly proud of his riches and honours as a PARVENU Snob who makes the most ludicrous exhibition of them; and a high-born Marchioness or Duchess just as vain of herself and her diamonds, as Queen Quashyboo, who sews a pair of epaulets on to her skirt, and turns out in state in a cocked hat and feathers. I have seen many examples of their falling away.
When she was eleven years old her brother Edward wrote of her: "Harriet reads everything she can lay hands on, and sews and knits diligently." This event served greatly to mature her, as she was intrusted with much of the care of the baby out of school hours.
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