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That he was honest, all admitted; that is to say, all who voted for him. This is a general characteristic of all new presidents. He himself took great pride in his home-spun honesty, which is a quality peculiar to nature's noblemen.
There was no lack of good home-spun cloth in Nuremberg; nay, and if we should never again have new garments that would be all the better for our souls' health. As for me, I might perchance have fewer suitors, but if one should pay his court to me, he would have no thought but for Margery, and how she looked and moved.
She wore a home-spun frock and a neat white pinafore, set off with a dainty ribbon tied about her throat. "She's uncommon still when strangers is here, sir," said Mrs. Chaffin; "but law me! she goes rompitin' about the house like as if she was crazy sometimes, ticklin' her father and tryin' t' snip off his beard with the scissors." That night was the beginning of happier days for me.
I cannot even allow that I'm the man you met then. I was not in my senses, and a man's senses are himself." "We were young and thoughtless," said Newson. "However, I've come to mend matters rather than open arguments. Poor Susan hers was a strange experience." "She was a warm-hearted, home-spun woman. She was not what they call shrewd or sharp at all better she had been." "She was not."
Pale as marble, the proud, patrician face was pure as some bending lily frozen on its graceful, rounded stem: and the tapering fingers with daintily curved, polished nails would have suited better the lace and velvet of royal robes than the rough home-spun sleeves folded back from the white wrists. Mr.
A basketful of apples even from the farmer's orchard is a treat to the children, for, though better fed than formerly, their diet is necessarily monotonous, and such fruit as may be grown in the cottage garden is, of course, sold. With the exception of vegetables the cottager now buys almost everything and produces nothing for home use; no home-spun clothing not even a home-baked loaf.
Mayfield inquired as to his church among the hills, and his countenance flared with a silly light and old Jasper ducked his head and snorted in the sleeve of his home-spun shirt. But the next morning Jim had the courage to appear at the breakfast table, still gazing; and later when Tom and his aunt went out for a walk, he followed along like a dog waiting to be scolded.
Noble land! where the chief in his hall the peasant in his hut alike open their arms with sheltering hospitality, to welcome the stranger where kindness springs from the heart, and dreams not of sordid gain where courtesy attends superior rank, without question, but without debasement where the men are valiant, the women virtuous where it needed but a few home-spun heroes an innkeeper and a friar to rouse up to arms an entire population, and in a brief space to drive back the Gallic foeman!
But tea-parties, with the ladies, were very common. "To take tea out," writes Mr. William L. Stone, in his interesting History of New York, "was a Dutch institution, and one of great importance. The matrons, arrayed in their best petticoats and linsey jackets, home-spun by their own wheels, would proceed on the intended afternoon visit.
There was no lack of good home-spun cloth in Nuremberg; nay, and if we should never again have new garments that would be all the better for our souls' health. As for me, I might perchance have fewer suitors, but if one should pay his court to me, he would have no thought but for Margery, and how she looked and moved.
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