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 skirts a hundred years old, stomachers cunningly embroidered in Hedebo stitch and with woven names and dates, which were the labour of years; there were ancient, gold-embroidered caps, and others sewn all over with beads, all of which had belonged to the wedding costumes of their an -



cestors; prayer books, shoe buckles, chains, and silver buttons.



Else was most taken up with shewing him the savings of years, in the shape of rolls of linen, bales of homespun and bundles of yarn; because this was—what Emanuel did not know, and never would have understood—the most important part