1 Several knit, and a few sew a little.
2 Knitting, sewing, reading, writing, ciphering, will be all you will have to teach.
3 Mrs. Reed and I were left alone: some minutes passed in silence; she was sewing, I was watching her.
4 Eliza would sit half the day sewing, reading, or writing, and scarcely utter a word either to me or her sister.
5 These could already read, write, and sew; and to them I taught the elements of grammar, geography, history, and the finer kinds of needlework.
6 Abbot, too, was sewing in another room, and Bessie, as she moved hither and thither, putting away toys and arranging drawers, addressed to me every now and then a word of unwonted kindness.
7 Georgiana said she dreaded being left alone with Eliza; from her she got neither sympathy in her dejection, support in her fears, nor aid in her preparations; so I bore with her feeble-minded wailings and selfish lamentations as well as I could, and did my best in sewing for her and packing her dresses.