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One of them alleviates the monotony of the office duties by working at embroidery in bright worsteds. Strolling out, Bunker and I consult certain shabby worthies who are yawning on the boxes of a long line of wretched hacks drawn up by the sidewalk across the street, and find that we can charter a vehicle for two shillings an hour.
"But fate decreed it otherwise. In my feverish haste, I had forgotten to place among the stores of my pirate craft that peculiar kind of chocolate caramel to which Eliza Jane was most partial. We were obliged to put into New Rochelle on the second day out, to enable Miss Sniffen to procure that delicacy at the nearest confectioner's, and match some zephyr worsteds at the first fancy shop.
Dotty knew very well that her mother would never allow her to go to Lina's house; but she did not like to say that, and she only replied, "I've matched my worsteds, and now I must go home." "O, you can go home afterwards. My mother said to me to-day, 'Do you bring Dotty Dimple home to supper this very night. She'll be so glad to see you!"
The windows got streaky and the inside of the store looked dingy and cold. Then the conservative spirit got into the buying. Nothing but black cheviots with a few drab and gray worsteds. Perhaps it was just as well, for when a customer came into the store and saw Stucker he thought it was raining outside.
I had no idea, I am sure . I hope you get your natural rest." "Perfectly, I assure you. Mrs Howell might envy me, if she still `cannot sleep for matching of worsteds. The simple truth is, Mrs Grey, we never were so happy in our lives. This may seem rather perverse; but so it is." Mrs Grey sighed that Mrs Rowland could not be aware of this.
"O, it does," said the first lady, eagerly; "I've lived many years in Kentucky and Virginia both, and I've seen enough to make any one's heart sick. Suppose, ma'am, your two children, there, should be taken from you, and sold?" "We can't reason from our feelings to those of this class of persons," said the other lady, sorting out some worsteds on her lap.
There being no shopping to be done, no worsteds to match, no confectionary to tempt what earthly use for money? So it was locked up at home. This, at least, is the way in which Flossy Shipley had argued, without knowing that she argued at all. Now she was looking at things with new eyes; the same things that she had heard of hundreds of times, but how different they were!
She calls it her kitchen-maid; it does wonders for any little roughness or greasiness; such soil comes off in that, and chemically disappears. It was all dining-room work; and we were chatty over it, as if we had sat down to wind worsteds; and there was no kitchen in the house that morning. We kept our butter and milk in the brick buttery at the foot of the kitchen stairs.
No! the child would be brought up at Cheverel Manor as a protegee, to be ultimately useful, perhaps, in sorting worsteds, keeping accounts, reading aloud, and otherwise supplying the place of spectacles when her ladyship's eyes should wax dim. So Mrs.
Dined at home and then to the office, where we sat all the afternoon, and at night home and spent the evening with my wife, and she and I did jangle mightily about her cushions that she wrought with worsteds the last year, which are too little for any use, but were good friends by and by again.
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