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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bronwen, post: 1246399, member: 5833&quot;]Without really doing the work needed to confirm, I think you may have hit it.&nbsp; Explains why the woman looks like she is being treated with respect, if not exactly honor, &amp; also looks a bit under threat.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found this interest in the Met&#039;s description:</p><p><br /></p><p>&#039;the girl will catch the apple in the lap of her dress&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>There&#039;s a place in Huckleberry Finn where he is trying to disguise himself as a girl &amp; the canny woman who has taken him in tosses something over to his lap, scissors I think, &amp; he confirms her suspicions by the way he catches them.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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