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Updated: May 21, 2025
Percy Reed, seated near a table loaded with needle-books, silk-winders, and a hundred little trinkets, with a cigar in his mouth, and a sock, with a little round gourd shoved into the foot of it, in his hand, was intently occupied in darning a hole in the toe. "There! don't throw away your cigar. Mon Dieu! can a person never see you without being overpowered at your grand politeness?"
There was an "office" also, where these things were for sale to any one who should choose to buy, and great consultations took place among the children, who had almost all brought a little shopping money. Some chose maple-sugar, some, silk-winders, some, little cakes of white wax for use in work-baskets.
'O, the silk mill. Such lovely colours, and cunning little silk-winders, it's so funny! But where have you been all this age, Hazel? you have been nowhere. 'I know what has happened, said Josephine Powder, looking half vexed and half curious, 'you needn't tell me anything. When a lady sees almost nobody and goes riding with the rest, we know what that means. It's transparent.
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