And put in the tape for strings, and a reel of white cotton, No.30.And I don't mind if you put in a piece of that German ribbon, middling width,' she went on.

'It's nicer than tape for nightcaps, and them sort o' things.' And with that, sir, she was turning out again, when her eyes was caught by some lavender prints, as was a-hanging just in the doorway.

Two shades of it, there was, dark and light.

'That's pretty,' says she.

'It's beautiful,' said I; 'they be the sweetest things I have had in, this many a day; and they be the wide width.