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"Now pray remark, sir," said the Lady Elizabeth Carlyon, seating herself in a shady arbour and taking up her needle and thread, "a woman, instead of sucking her thread and rubbing it into a black spike and cursing, threads her needle -- so! Thereafter she takes the object to be sewed and holds it -- no, she can't, sir, while you sit so much afar, prithee come closer to her -- there! Yet no -- 'twill never do -- she'll be apt to prick you sitting thus"
"If I took off my coat, madam"