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Updated: May 19, 2025
The report that Jim Fenton was soon to lead to the hymeneal altar the popular village tailoress, spread with great rapidity, and as it started from the minister's family, it had a good send-off, and was accompanied by information that very pleasantly modified its effect upon the public mind.
Julia Atkins was the daughter of Ensign Atkins, who lived on the mill-road, just above Deacon Warner's. When she was ten years old her mother died; and in a few months afterwards her father married Polly Wiggin, the tailoress, a shrewd, selfish, managing woman.
I said in a low voice: "You ended everything for Dolly Glenn." "How was I to know she was no light o' love this camp tailoress this silly little wench who but let it go! Had she but whimpered, and seemed abashed and unfamiliar with a kiss Well, let it go.... But I could cut my tongue out that I ever spoke to her. God!
Tom had fallen from a ladder, been taken up and brought home dead, and she had travelled back five hundred miles to bury him in Deerfield, beside his father and mother; for he was their only son. There were about a hundred dollars left for Mary. She could not work now, and she went to board with her half-sister, the Deerfield tailoress.
Your secretary's somewhere about the place turned up with a typewriter early this morning. And there's a young woman " "A what?" Maraton asked. "A young woman," Henneford continued, "secretary's sister or something." Maraton smiled. "Miss Thurnbrein." "What, the tailoress?" Preston replied. "She's a good sort. Wrote rare stuff, she did, about her trade. They are out together, seeing the sights.
Then the little tailoress went away, wondering when the mischief would reveal itself, but sure that it would appear in good time. In good time that is, in Mr. Belcher's good time it did appear. To comprehend the excitement that followed, it must be remembered that the people of Sevenoaks had the most implicit confidence in Mr. Belcher's business sagacity.
Benedict promised to attend to the matter before he slept, and then Jim went back into the house. Of the long conversation that took place that night between the woodsman and the little tailoress we shall present no record. That he pleaded his case well and earnestly, and without a great deal of bashfulness, will be readily believed by those who have made his acquaintance.
Whoever saw this name in the town records would naturally image to himself the town tailoress or nurse, or somebody's single sister who had been wise too long, somebody tall, a little bent, and bony, somebody weather-beaten and determined looking, with a sharp, shrewd glance of a gray eye that said you could not possibly get the better of her and so need not try, somebody who goes out unattended and fearless at night; for, as she very properly observes, "Who'd want to speak to me?"
I expect, says she, a-sneerin' in such a way that I couldn't stand it any longer, 'I expect Miss Blake is a-savin' all her money to buy her settin'-out and furniture with; for I suppose, says she, lookin' more spiteful than ever, 'I suppose Miss Blake thinks that as long as there's life there's hope for a husband. I happen to know what all the ladies thought of this speech, for every one of 'em afterwards told me; but, if you'll believe me, one or two of the youngest of 'em kind of pretended to smile at the joke on't, when Miss Jaynes looked round as if she expected 'em to laugh; for she thought, I suppose, I was really and truly no account, bein' a cobbler's daughter and a tailoress, and that when the minister's wife insulted me, I dars'n't reply, and all hands would stand by and applaud.
There was not a woman in the crowd who did not believe in Jim; and all were glad that the little tailoress had reached so pleasant and stimulating a change in her life. When the voyagers had passed beyond the scattered farm-houses into the lonely country, Jim, with his wife's help, released himself from the collar and cravat that tormented him, and once more breathed freely.
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