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And it wuzn't neccessary for her to knit two pairs of open-work stockin's with fine spool thread. I sez to her, "Tirzah Ann, why don't you buy your stockin's? You can git good ones for twenty cents. And," sez I, "these will take you weeks and weeks to knit, besides bein' expensive in thread." But she said "she couldn't find such nice ones to the store she couldn't find shell-work."
A pane had apparently been cut out of the window their attendant had opened, and it afforded free passage to the birds. On a bracket of shell-work, which Flora had made to support a vase of flowers, was a deserted nest, bedded in soft green moss, which hung from it in irregular streamers and festoons. "How pretty!" said Mrs. Delano.
Toole, 'twas 'twas for me, sobbed poor Mrs. Mack. Toole stared for a moment, and had to turn quickly about, and admire some shell-work in a glass box over the chimneypiece very closely, and I think his stout short back was shaking tremulously as he did so; and, when he turned round again, though his face was extraordinarily grave, it was a good deal redder than usual.
He may call out as much as he likes, he will not be able to run after you. "'Ooh! cried the Englishman, in convulsions of delight, 'here are three piasters for you. Fetch me a lame invalid. "And in order not to excite the suspicions of the blind man and his dog, he left the house, and pretended to be examining a fountain made of shell-work, while the lazzarone went for a third guide.
This day there was a new moon, and the weather changed for the better. Dr Johnson said of Miss M'Lean, 'She is the most accomplished lady that I have found in the Highlands. She knows French, musick, and drawing, sews neatly, makes shell-work, and can milk cows; in short, she can do every thing.
In humbler equipages depart the many black women who have visited the steamer, some for amusement, some to sell the beautiful shell-work made on the island. These may be termed, in general, as ugly a set of wenches as one could wish not to see.
"Then," sez I, "I shall go without shell-work." But she said, "They wuz dretful ornamental to the foot, specially to the instep, and she shouldn't want to go without 'em." "But," sez I, "who is a-goin' to see your instep? You hain't a-goin' round in that crowd with slips on, be you?"
They have belts of shell-work slung across their shoulders, and are armed with bows and arrows and flint-headed spears. These are an Indian Sagamore and his attendants, who have come to gaze at the labors of the white men. And now rises a cry, that a pack of wolves have seized a young calf in the pasture; and every man snatches up his gun or pike, and runs in chase of the marauding beasts.
A peculiar lustre sparkling on one side of the shell-work however, at last attracted his attention, and, glancing up quickly, he saw, to his surprise, the reflection of a strange radiance, rosily tinted and brilliant. Turning in its direction, he paused, irresolute.
"Nothing was wanting but a cage of canaries, photographs in plush frames, shell-work and crochet mats." Durtal had got so far in his reflections when the abbé came in with extended hand, gently finding fault with his long absence. Durtal made what excuses he could, unusual occupations, long weariness. "And our Blessed Lidwine, how do you get on with her?"
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