"I suppose we're all proud of something," she said, "and I'm proud of my knitting. I think things like that run in families.
Thornbury laid down her knitting, and a look of extreme solicitude came into her eyes.
'What is it you want to buy?' the Sheep said at last, looking up for a moment from her knitting.
'You needn't say "please" to ME about 'em' the Sheep said, without looking up from her knitting: 'I didn't put 'em there, and I'm not going to take 'em away.'
The Duchess looked up from her
knitting. "Your husband has saved you the journey," she remarked, "even if you were able to work upon the Prince's good nature to such an extent."
As she spoke, knitting methodically meanwhile, Lady Otway noted, with approval, the upright, responsible bearing of her niece, to whom the prospect of marriage had brought some gravity most becoming in a bride, and yet, in these days, most rare.
She went on knitting, but her fingers worked with a decision that was oddly unlike the smooth and contemplative sweep of Lady Otway's plump hand.
Nurse Savishna,
knitting in hand, was telling in low tones, scarcely hearing or understanding her own words, what she had told hundreds of times before: how the late princess had given birth to Princess Mary in Kishenev with only a Moldavian peasant woman to help instead of a midwife.
And Levin saw with astonishment that she had taken up the
knitting she had brought in in the night and begun working at it again.
Poyser in a hard voice, rolling and unrolling her
knitting and looking icily out of the window, as she continued to stand opposite the squire.
Then did Miss Patty lay down her
knitting, take off her specs, rub them, put them on again, and for the first time look at Anne as at a human being.
Garth She did not mean to go beyond this salutary general doctrine, and threw her indignation into a needless unwinding of her worsted,
knitting her brow at it with a grand air.
Here sat Marilla Cuthbert, when she sat at all, always slightly distrustful of sunshine, which seemed to her too dancing and irresponsible a thing for a world which was meant to be taken seriously; and here she sat now,
knitting, and the table behind her was laid for supper.
Then she glanced in a casual manner round the wine-shop, took up her
knitting with great apparent calmness and repose of spirit, and became absorbed in it.
Heep, with a prodigious sniff, resumed her
knitting.
