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Minnie set her work-basket on the steps. "Oh, I guess I can keep a secret," she said. "But it won't make any difference." "You mean you've said it, and you'll stick to it that it's gratitude till their wedding day." "She knows he gave her father something to do, and helped him in other ways, when no one else did." "I know all about that.
Pity, while it deepened Carterette's tenderness, lessened the gap between them. Perhaps something of this passed through Guida's mind, and the deep pride and courage of her nature came to her assistance. She withdrew her hands and mechanically smoothed back her hair, then, as Carterette sat watching her, folded up the sewing and put it in the work-basket hanging on the wall.
Frank had hardly got upstairs before his pupil rose from the cricket, and began to look attentively about him. His first proceeding was to, hide his primer carefully in Mrs. Frost's work-basket, which lay on the table. Then, looking curiously about him, his attention was drawn to the old-fashioned clock that stood in the corner. Now, Pomp's curiosity had been strongly excited by this clock.
"There was no need to consult me about it," she replied, feeling vexed at the tone that implied so much more than he had a right to express under the circumstances, and taking her work-basket to the far side of the table she sat down to work. "Must I go or may I stay, Dexie? at least till the time of your father's usual attack? Be kind this once and say I may stay." "As you please.
He rolled once more the whole length of the leads, turned over Jane's stool, and upset her work-basket, so that her thimble bounded off to a far corner, and the shirt-collar she was stitching fell over into the water-butt. "There! What will Jane say?" cried Agnes, picking up the basket, and peeping over into the small part of the top of the water-butt which was not covered.
Aunt Mary's work-basket stood open on the table, with her work lying where she had flung it down when she ran out to meet Mollie. The jig-saw puzzle was tidied away, and the sofa cushions sat in a prim row on the sofa, with nothing about them to show how often a kind hand had tucked them in behind a young invalid's back.
I set down my lamp on the table where her little work-basket still was; the light threw a gleam upward upon her, she seemed more than ever to be stepping into the room, coming down towards me, coming back to her life. Ah, no! her life was lost and vanished: all mine stood between her and the days she knew. She looked at me with eyes that did not change.
And piano playing isn't very nice when you've got to stick your toes under it to keep your shoes on." "Well then," grumbled Polly, hopping around in her stocking-feet, "where is the work-basket, mamsie? Oh here it is on the window-seat."
He advanced, boots creaking, charms rattling, coat-skirts flying, an enormous black cocked hat on his head, the corners of which touched his shoulders. Élodie, picking up her work-basket, retreated to her chamber. "Well, Gamelin!" inquired the citoyen Blaise, "have you brought me anything new?" "May be," declared the painter, and proceeded to expound his ideas.
On the morning appointed for this meeting of The Arden Foresters, Celia Fair, knowing nothing about it, of course, had just settled herself in the arbor with a cushion at her back and her work-basket beside her, when Rosalind looked in. She carried a book and a bunch of leaves, and she seemed surprised to find the summer-house occupied.
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