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"Indeed I do, my dear," said Mrs O'Kelly; "and you see them much more common now in well-furnished drawing-rooms. But still I'd much sooner have them just what Fanny would like best. Surely, Frank, you must have heard her speak about worsted-work?" All this completely disconcerted Frank, and made him very much out of love with his own plan of consulting his mother.
"Do you mean me to believe," said Kilcullen, with a gentle laugh, "that you are contented to live and die in single blessedness at Grey Abbey? that your ambition does not soar higher than the interchange of worsted-work patterns with Miss O'Joscelyn?" "I did not say so, Adolphus." "What is your ambition then? what kind and style of life would you choose to live?
"I don't like anything in worsted-work but flowers," said Sophy; "Nora Dillon says she saw two most beautiful wreaths at that shop in Grafton Street, both hanging from bars, you know; and that would be so much prettier. I'm sure Fanny would like flowers best; wouldn't she now, Frank? Mamma thinks the common cross-bar patterns are nicer for furniture."
"Well," said Mrs. Murray with a sigh. "You have lost her now, and Mr. Hazard will lose her too. You and he and all your friends are a sort of clever children. We are always expecting you to do something worth doing, and it never comes. You are a sort of water-color, worsted-work, bric-
I begin to feel the temptation of experiment. Agriculture, horticulture, floriculture, these are vast fields, into which one may wander away, and never be seen more. It seemed to me a very simple thing, this gardening; but it opens up astonishingly. It is like the infinite possibilities in worsted-work.
What can a woman do, when she knows that an epoch of feeling is rounded off, finished, dead? Go back to her story-books, her dress-making, her worsted-work? Shall she attempt to rise to mediocrity on the piano or in drawing, distribute tracts, become secretary of a Dorcas society? or shall she turn her mind to the matter of cultivating another lover at once?
For one, I have never been fascinated by the style of domestic paradise that English novels depict, half a dozen unmarried daughters round the family hearth, all assiduously doing worsted-work and petting their papa.
Of course, the servants gossiped; and as it was settled that Mr Barclay had done what his father had told him, a week passed away, and matters settled down with Miss Adela Mimpriss sitting at the window just as usual, doing worsted-work, and the old house looking as grim as ever, and as if a bit of paint and a man to clean the windows would have been a blessing to us all.
But the square piano, the endless succession of baskets, card-racks, etc., the footstools with the worsted-work dog and cat thereon emblazoned, the album and other books, so neatly and regularly placed round the table, and above all, three heads in very bad water-colours that adorn the walls all proclaim the superior education of the daughter of the house, and her aspirations after modern gentility.
Flutter, but I think, I believe, I guess you are sitting on my work. If you will rise, I will try and finish it before tea." No help for it, and I arose, at the same moment dexterously slipping my hand behind me and withdrawing the thorn in the flesh. "Oh, dear, where is my needle?" said the young lady, anxiously scrutinizing the crushed worsted-work. I gave it to her with a blush.
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