I wish the woollen stockings were better looked to!--when I was here last, I went into the kitchen-garden and examined the clothes drying on the line; there was a quantity of black hose in a very bad state of repair: from the size of the holes in them I was sure they had not been well mended from time to time."
Amikor utoljára itt jártam, megnéztem a konyhakertben kiteregetett holmit, és láttam, hogy a fekete harisnyák igen rossz állapotban vannak. A lyukak nagyságából arra kellett következtetnem, hogy a harisnyákat nem foldozzák rendszeresen.