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Weaving, stocking-knitting, stone-cutting; why employ intelligent men on such work? it is merely one machine employed on another. All things considered, the trade I should choose for my pupil, among the trades he likes, is that of a carpenter.
The question reaches us in anxious tones from all the circle of our readers; and what especially shocks us is, that grave doctors of divinity, and serious, stocking-knitting matrons, seem to be the class who are particularly set against the success of our excellent orthodox hero, and bent on reminding us of the claims of that unregenerate James, whom we have sent to sea on purpose that our heroine may recover herself of that foolish partiality for him which all the Christian world seems bent on perpetuating.
Monsieur le Docteur S , our family physician, is also physician of the convent. "You will see nobody," he said, remarking my sentimental curiosity concerning cloistered nuns, "you will see nobody but a lot of lace-mending and stocking-knitting old maids who failed to get husbands."
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