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I should like to do some little thing for him because he's been so kind to you. I can't do much because we're poor ourselves. What are you writing, Bobbie?" "Nothing particular," said Bobbie, who had suddenly begun to scribble. "I'm sure he'd like the things, Mother." The morning of the fifteenth was spent very happily in getting the buns and watching Mother make A. P. on them with pink sugar.
Such wicked waste..." Margaret laughed lightly. "Oh, Darsie Garnett, how mean of you, when I feed you with my best Chelsea buns, to land me in this time-honoured discussion! I'm an only child, and my parents have been perfect bricks in giving me my wish and sparing me for three whole years! The least I can do is to go home and do a turn for them. I fail to see where the waste comes in!"
My views on the emancipation of labour, for instance, are quite advanced. I am prepared " Mary interrupted him, absently, demurely, with a little speech that appeared to be a quotation. "Labour is a pretty beast in its cage to the philanthropic visitor with buns; its temper is better understood of the professional keeper."
Spence jogging comfortably along through the outskirts in a bread cart driven by the one-time Sergeant Edward Timms. "And him so silly with havin' her," said Mrs. Indeed we may as well admit that the gallant Sergeant confused more things that day than rolls and buns. The latter part of his orderly bread route was strewn thickly with indignant customers.
Gessler leaned forward again. "Have your views on taxes changed at all?" he asked. "Do you see my point of view more clearly now?" Arnold admitted that he thought that, after all, there might be something to be said for it. "That's right," said the Governor. "And the tax on sheep? You don't object to that?" "No." "And the tax on cows?" "I like it." "And those on bread, and buns, and lemonade?"
"It's got cake in it, and little meat pies, and jam tarts and buns, and oranges and red-currant wine, and figs and chocolate. I'll creep back to my room and get it this minute, and we'll eat it now." Sara almost reeled. When one is faint with hunger the mention of food has sometimes a curious effect. She clutched Ermengarde's arm. "Do you think you COULD?" she ejaculated.
So they merely asked her to let them take their dinner out into Regent's Park and this, with the implied cold mutton and tomatoes, was readily granted. 'You can get yourselves some buns or sponge-cakes, or whatever you fancy-like, said old Nurse, giving Cyril a shilling.
Of scarce less moment than these were our frequent visits, in the same general connection, to the old Pantheon of Oxford Street, now fallen from its high estate, but during that age a place of fine rococo traditions, a bazaar, an exhibition, an opportunity, at the end of long walks, for the consumption of buns and ginger-beer, and above all a monument to the genius of that wonderful painter B. R. Haydon.
I must register the packet at a post-office on our way to the station, and it could not fail to reach him. This business settled, I returned to the child, who was sitting, as I had so often, done, gazing pensively into the fire. Was she to be a sort of miniature copy of myself? "Come, Minima," I said, "we must be thinking of tea. Which would you like best, buns, or cake, or bread-and-butter?
The long oilcloth-covered table down the centre of the "room" was full of smoking dishes of potatoes and ham and corned beef, and piled high with bread and buns; tin teapots were at each end of the table and were passed from hand to hand. There were white bowls filled with stewed prunes and apricots and pitchers of "Goldendrop" syrup at intervals down the table.
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