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Updated: September 9, 2025
Emmeline has, by the bye, invented and executed, and given to my mother, the most ingenious footstool I ever saw, which folds up and can be put into a work-bag.
Fine writers say, 'Oh, men have a thousand objects, women but one! That's nonsense, dear Percy; women have their thousand objects too. They have not the bar, but they have the milliner's shop; they can't fight, but they can sit by the window and embroider a work-bag; they don't rush into politics, but they plunge their souls into love for a parrot or a lap-dog.
"I never saw such a thing!" she murmured, to herself. "You turn it straight, and then it's wrong side out, and then you turn it back, and still it's wrong side out! I wish I could ask Mother about it!" The exasperating silk affair was a fancy work-bag which Marjorie was trying to make for her mother's Christmas present.
When they were gone the governess gave two apples to each of the children, excepting Augusta, to whom she gave only one. The rest of the apples she took out of the plate, and put in her work-bag for her own eating.
One of the first things she did on her arrival at the school was to present Kitty Sharston with a white work-bag embroidered with cherries in crewel-stitch, and with a cherry-colored ribbon running through it. She had spent from five to six shillings on the bag, and had denied herself a little to purchase it. Kitty received it with rapture, and used to bring it into Mrs.
The little tawny skin shall be beautifully dressed by my mother. The legs and the nose shall be embossed with porcupine quills. It will be my work-bag," she said to herself. As she stole forward on the fresh trail she scanned every nook, every clump of bushes.
In the lavender gown, with her fair face smiling, and carrying a work-bag of the interminable knitting in one hand, she did not look in the least the emissary of fate she really was. "Mr. de Peyster has sent some letters, Frank. He writes me that none of them are of importance, but that you may care to look them over.
Just at this moment the conference was interrupted by a visitor, Miss Keziah Cricket, who came in with her work-bag on her arm to ask a subscription for a poor family of Ants who had just had their house hoed up in clearing the garden-walks. "How stupid of them," said Katy, "not to know better than to put their house in the garden-walk; that's just like those Ants!"
"And Gilbert tore his trousers climbing on the gate, and father laid him upside down on your lap and I ran and got your work-bag and you mended the seat of his little trousers.
"That's a stylish messaline the second one's got on, all right. I think them beaded tunics are swell." "If it hadn't been for the false-hair craze old man Rosenstein wouldn't " Mrs. Blondheim leaned forward in her chair; her little flowered-silk work-bag dropped to the floor. "There's Bella now! Honest, that Mr. Arnheim 'ain't left her once to-day, and he only got here this morning, too!
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