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Updated: May 2, 2025
"Spinner in the Sun," he began, huskily, "were you meaning that you'd go with me when I took the highway again, and help me make the world easier for everybody with a hurt heart?" "Yes," she answered. "You called me and I came for always."
'Sho! they all said, that 's old Deacon Spinner, the same he told about in that other story of his, only the deacon's got on a petticoat and a mob-cap, but it's the same old sixpence. So I said to myself, I must have some new characters.
Everything went prosperously with them for a long time; the cow thrived, and gave a great deal of milk, customers were plenty, they paid the rent for their cottage regularly, and Drusilla who was a beautiful spinner, had her linen chest filled to the brim with the finest linen. At length, however, a great misfortune befell them.
"Spinner in the Sun," said the Piper, with suppressed tenderness, "were you thinking I could see you more than once or twice and not be caring? Were you thinking I could have the inmost soul of me torn because you'd been hurt, and never be knowing what lay beyond it, for me? Were you thinking I could be talking to you day after day, without having the longing to talk with you always?
Pure luck, I call it." "Will we signal to her, Mr. Spinner?" gently asked the young lady from Boston. "Oh, certainly," answered young Spinner. "See there's our signal flying from the masthead now. That shows them what line we belong to." "Dear me, how interesting," said the young lady. "You have crossed many times, I suppose, Mr. Spinner." "Oh, I know my way about," answered the modest Spinner.
Some fragments of an ivory lyre, and some pipes pierced with three holes at equal distances, bear witness to their taste for music; a distaff, still full of charred wool, deserted by the spinner when she fled before the conflagration, tells of domestic industry and manual dexterity, while marble and stone phalli prove that the generative forces of nature were worshipped.
The shops remind them, with all their contrasts, of the marts of Rome, for men always and everywhere have the trader's passion. In the narrow streets of Jerusalem they see the stir of many activities. The workman is hammering his brass; the shoemaker shapes his sandals; the flax spinner is winding his thread; the scribe sits on his mat, and is ready for his writing.
While the others were still gaping in awestruck fashion, he quietly fetched her a chair and performed various little services for her. She received his attentions so graciously that a warmer feeling than courtesy sprang up in his heart for the fair spinner. He was in truth a handsome lad, whose attentions any maid might have been proud to receive.
But you've got to use your wits from the time it starts to the time it stops." "The creature would best me every time," said the visitor, regarding Sabina's machine with suspicion and something akin to dislike. The spinner stopped a fouled spindle and rubbed her hand.
The Tropical Fiber Company have sent these machines to Demerara, also to Java and other places, with the design of spinning the fiber of the edible banana, and also to utilize some portions of the plant as materials in the manufacture of paper. Proofs have already been brought forward of fiber obtained in this manner in Java, the value of which to the spinner has been reckoned at from £20 to £25.
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