"Well, now, if I didn't think you
sewed his collar with white thread, but it's black."
you really must talk less and sew more, or our society will be disgraced.
Poor people always complain that the winter is a hard one, and never are satisfied," remarked Miss Perkins, making her diamonds sparkle as she sewed buttons on the wrong side of a pink calico apron, which would hardly survive one washing.
"You sew them on?" cried Rose, with her eyes wide open in amazement.
He evidently had, for he was soon back with a funny little work-bag, out of which he produced a thimble without a top; and, having threaded his needle, he proceeded to sew on the buttons so handily that Rose was much impressed and amused.
`I expect you'll learn to
sew all right, Lena, if you'll only keep your head and not go gadding about to dances all the time and neglect your work, the way some country girls do.'
She longed to run to meet him, and beg pardon, and be kissed and comforted, as she was sure of being, but, of course, she did nothing of the sort, and when she saw John coming, began to hum quite naturally, as she rocked and sewed, like a lady of leisure in her best parlor.
Meg went to the other window, and sewed as if new rosettes for slippers were among the necessaries of life.
All were busy at home, John absent till night, and nothing to do but sew, or read, or potter about.
He drew up to the table again and she
sewed on in silence, with dropped lashes, while he sat in fascinated contemplation of the way in which her hands went up and down above the strip of stuff, just as he had seen a pair of birds make short perpendicular flights over a nest they were building.
He noted the firm, efficient hands--hands that could control a horse like Bob, that could run a typewriter almost as fast as a man could talk, that could
sew on dainty garments, and that, doubtlessly, could play on the piano over there in the corner.
As he had a compassionate heart he pulled out his needle and thread, and
sewed her together.