Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp - or, the Old Lumberman's Secret by Annie Roe Carr
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accompanies those qualities.
Her influence upon both her daughter and her husband was marked. They deferred to her, made much of her, shielded her in every way possible from all that was rude or unpleasant. Yet Mrs. Sherwood was a perfectly capable and practical housekeeper, and when her health would allow it she did all the work of the little family herself. Just now she was having what she smilingly called "one of her lazy spells," and old Mrs. Joyce came in to do the washing and cleaning each week. It was one of Mrs. Sherwood's many virtues that she bore with a smile recurrent bodily ills that had made her a semi-invalid since Nan was a very little girl. But in seeking medical aid for these ills, much of the earnings of the head of the household had been spent. The teakettle was singing when Nan entered the "dwelling in amity", and her mother's low rocker was drawn close to the side- table on which the lamp stood beside the basket of mending. Although Mrs. Sherwood could not at present do her own laundry- work, she insisted upon darning and patching and mending as only she could darn and patch and mend. Mr. Sherwood insisted that a sock always felt more comfortable on his foot after "Momsey" had darned it than when it was new. And surely she was a very excellent needlewoman. |
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