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Updated: May 21, 2025
He had kept his eyes on her slim bust and tight-girded waist that sprung suddenly neat and smooth out of the curving skirt-folds, and it had not occurred to him to exclaim even in his own heart: "With your girlishness and your ferocity, your intimidating seriousness and your delicious absurdity, I would give a week's wages just to take hold of you and shake you!" No!
Prudence and Alice Gordon were at the table, which was covered by a litter of tweed dress material and paper patterns. Prudence was struggling with a maze of skirt-folds, under which a sewing-machine was almost buried. Alice was cutting and pinning and basting seams at the other end of the table. Sarah Gurridge was standing beside the open window watching the rising of the storm.
How fair! Did ever you see the like? Looked down at her shoes and her snow-white apron! And then she held on to her mother's skirt-folds, And carried a psalm-book wrapped up in a 'kerchief! That ample purple person by her side, with the dark eyes, the double chin, and the hard lines in her painted face, must be Gila's mother!
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