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Page 62
... lace , and bargaining for it . Mrs. Morelle stopped and looked at some of the pieces , but did not buy any . Grimkie ... laces pretty ? " 66 Yes , " said Mrs. Morelle , " they were beauti- ful . " " Then why did not you buy some of them ...
... lace , and bargaining for it . Mrs. Morelle stopped and looked at some of the pieces , but did not buy any . Grimkie ... laces pretty ? " 66 Yes , " said Mrs. Morelle , " they were beauti- ful . " " Then why did not you buy some of them ...
Page 63
... lace that I buy here , if I buy any , as I fully intend to do , I shall value chiefly as a souvenir of the lacemaking and lacemakers of Bayeux , and so I shall wish to buy it directly from the lacemakers themselves , or at least from ...
... lace that I buy here , if I buy any , as I fully intend to do , I shall value chiefly as a souvenir of the lacemaking and lacemakers of Bayeux , and so I shall wish to buy it directly from the lacemakers themselves , or at least from ...
Page 64
... lace - makers , whom they found at work every where at their cottage doors , and at the corners of the streets . Bayeux is a very quiet town , the making of lace , and the subordinate trades connected with it being the principal ...
... lace - makers , whom they found at work every where at their cottage doors , and at the corners of the streets . Bayeux is a very quiet town , the making of lace , and the subordinate trades connected with it being the principal ...
Page 65
... lace on the pattern . The woman or girl who was making the lace , sat before the cushion . Mrs. Morelle and Flor- ence stopped to see several of them , and to talk with them about the work . They would take out a pin from the back part ...
... lace on the pattern . The woman or girl who was making the lace , sat before the cushion . Mrs. Morelle and Flor- ence stopped to see several of them , and to talk with them about the work . They would take out a pin from the back part ...
Page 66
... did you begin to learn when you were very young ? " asked Grimkie . " Yes sir , " said the woman . " I began before I was seven years old , and now I am more than seventy . I have been working at it many long 66 THE LACE - MAKERS .
... did you begin to learn when you were very young ? " asked Grimkie . " Yes sir , " said the woman . " I began before I was seven years old , and now I am more than seventy . I have been working at it many long 66 THE LACE - MAKERS .
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Page 43 - Ocean, the first thing which strikes us is, that, the north-east and south-east monsoons, which are found the one on the north and the other on...
Page 33 - Lord ivas with me and made all things easy, though my dear friend and I were separated one at one end of the town and the other at the other, and both under locks and bolts ; the said Davis swearing desperately that we should never come out nor see one another again all his time. And yet in two weeks' time he let me out again and her also.
Page 183 - Grimkie said that the best thing they could do would be to go and see the Castle of Mont Orgueil.
Page 193 - Florence established herself upon the sofa, and the two boys in arm-chairs near the fire, each with a large slice of bread and butter in one hand and a piece of cheese in the other, and their tumblers of milk on corners of the table within reach.
Page 69 - There was a large table in the middle of the room, with broad boxes filled with laces upon it, and other boxes in cases about the room.
Page 80 - ... strongly support Senator Mitchell's bill, S. 1639. The establishment of a Board such as is proposed in your bill is vitally necessary in the interest of military and commercial expansion of our national air power. If is an open secret that in the 1930's technological improvements placed German air power far in advance of that of any other nation in the world, and the stern necessity of mastering that power, rather than our own foresight, was the determining factor in World War II. Certainly,...