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Do not speak of this to any one. Good-bye, Charlotte." He took the young girl's head and kissed her hair; then he left the garden by the postern-gate and fled to Les Touches, where he stayed near Camille till past midnight. On returning home, at one in the morning, he found his mother awaiting him with her worsted-work. He entered softly, clasped her hand in his, and said, "Is Charlotte gone?"
There were two moral commonplaces, and there was the forbidden fruit-tree, whose branches diverged, at set distances like the radii of a circle, from its stem, a perpendicular line; exactly at the end of each branch hung one forbidden fruit pre-Raphaelite worsted-work. There were also two prints of more modern date, one agricultural, one manufactural.
What a value she imagined the potted plants in her greenhouses bore! What a price she set upon that horrible old spinet she left in her drawing-room! and the framed pieces of worsted-work, performed by the accomplished Dora and the lovely Flora, had they been masterpieces of Titian or Vandyck, to be sure my lady dowager could hardly have valued them at a higher price.
And Buckingham, with a sudden admiration for his prompt seizure of the hour, put on his hat and coat. Two young women were sitting over their worsted-work in the house numbered 17 Grove Street. "Twenty-five, twenty-six," said the elder.
It is true that many of the careless, thoughtless girls you are acquainted with enjoy more happiness, such as they are capable of, in mornings and evenings spent at their worsted-work, than the most diligent cultivation of the intellect can ever insure to you.
"Possibly, my boy," bending carelessly over her work. "Aunt Felicie," he strode up to her with sudden passion. "Do not answer me so! I am a man, and I love this fisher-lass with all my heart!" He had stopped directly before her, and she saw that his face was white with feeling. Down went the worsted-work, and, rising, she flung both arms about his neck.
There is nothing like good hard work to cure the dyspepsia and romantic dreams. 'Indeed, dear doctor, and you have reason, to be sure, said Mrs. Ashleigh. 'And pray, don't you think, now, that Lilian is a great deal more comely since she has given up worsted-work and dawdling, and taken to filling her duties as housewife? 'To be sure I do. The doctor here passed the muffins to Lilian.
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.
I wonder you like to see it yourself, my dear. Now, don't you think it would be far better to encourage her in domestic tastes and amusements? I give you my word, she hasn't done a bit of worsted-work for a fortnight." John's face must have been good at this piece of intelligence; if there is one thing he hates more than another it is "cross-stitch."
But then, she knew so little of him, and so little liked what she did know: that scheme, therefore, was given up. Lady Selina was so cold, and prudent would talk to her so much about propriety, self-respect, and self-control, that she could not make a confidante of her. No one could talk to Selina on any subject more immediately interesting than a Roman Emperor, or a pattern for worsted-work.
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