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She now produced, out of a work-bag that she had with her, some little

wooden instruments (what they are called I never knew), and proceeded

to knit, or net, an article which ultimately took the shape of a silk

purse As the ent on, I remembered to have seen just such purses

before; indeed, I was the possessor of one Their peculiar excellence,

besides the great delicacy and beauty of the manufacture, lay in the

almost impossibility that any uninitiated person should discover the

aperture; although, to a practised touch, they would open as wide as

charity or prodigality ht wish I wondered if it were not a sy the new confidence hich Zenobia had inspired her,

our guest showed herself disquieted by the storainst the s and made the oaken

frame of the farmhouse creak, she looked at us apprehensively, as if to

inquire whether these tempestuous outbreaks did not betoken so blast She had been bred up, no

doubt, in some close nook, some inauspiciously sheltered court of the

city, where the utterht scatter

down the slates of the roof into the bricked area, could not shake the

casement of her little roo froainst the black panes of our uncurtained