Sowing and Sewing: A Sexagesima Story

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Yonge Charlotte Mary. Sowing and Sewing: A Sexagesima Story

PREFACE

CHAPTER I. THE SERMON

CHAPTER II. THE SUNDAY SCHOOL

CHAPTER III. THE WORKING PARTY

CHAPTER IV. TEACHER AMY

CHAPTER V. THE TROUSSEAU

CHAPTER VI. STITCH, STITCH, STITCH

CHAPTER VII. WANDERING EYES

CHAPTER VIII. AMY'S VISITS

CHAPTER IX. AWKWARD MEETINGS

CHAPTER X. THE RECKONING

CHAPTER XI. WHICH SHALL PROSPER?

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Four girls were together in a pleasant cottage room with a large window, over which fluttered some dry sticks, which would in due time bear clematis and Virginia creeper leaves.

Three of them were Miss Lee's apprentices, and this room had been built out at the back of the baker's shop for them. The place was the property of the Lee family themselves, and nobody in Langley was more respected than they were. Ambrose Lee, whose name was over the baker's shop, and who kept a horse and cart, was always called Mr. Lee.

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"Then he said," proceeded Jessie, "that there were some fair and comely, some not, but only bringing forth just their own seeds, not doing any real good, like people that keep themselves to themselves, and think it is enough to be out of mischief and do good to themselves and their families."

"And didn't you like it," broke in Amy, "when he said that was not what God asked of us? He wanted us to be like the wheat, or the vine, or the apple, or the strawberry, some plain in blossom, some fair and lovely to look at, but valued for the fruit they bring forth, not selfishly, just to keep up their own stock, but for the support and joy and blessing of all!"

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