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"You had better drop eight cents in the bank before you forget it," said Mrs. Fenelby. "Eight cents?" inquired Tom, quite at a loss to remember what he was to pay eight cents for. "Eight cents," repeated his wife. "For the candy. It is eighty cents a pound, isn't it? But it is a luxury, isn't it? That would be twenty-four cents!" "Yes, twenty-four cents," said Tom, smiling.
The Avenue flashed with swift silent automobiles and blooded horses. These uptown crowds through whose rushing streams he passed were all well dressed and carried bundles of candy, flowers and toys. The newsboys were already crying extras with glowing advance accounts of the banquet and ball.
Hi, Prue, what yo' laffin' at?" Prue, instead of answering leant further forward hiding her face without checking her merriment. "Crazy," said Miss Pinckney, "but it's better to be laughing crazy than crying crazy like some folk here's a quarter and get her some candy." She put the coin on the table and marched off followed by Phyl.
We must see it for ourselves. There is no one around now, and we can climb to the top." "I don't care very much about it," spoke Brighteyes. "I would rather find another box of peanut candy;" but because she loved Buddy, and did not want him to start off alone, she consented to climb the big hill with him. So they started off. At first it was rather easy, and they went up quite fast.
When she passed up the court, some of them called out to her, and asked her where she was going with all that candy. She took no notice of them, for they spoke very rudely, and were no friends of hers. Among them was Johnny Grippen, whose acquaintance the reader made on the pier of South Boston bridge.
I don't know what you women like best to suck at, candy or horrors." Now Henry was forced to admit that he himself was confronted by something mysterious. Why had Horace fairly flung that candy on the ground, and trampled on it, unless he had suddenly gone mad, or ? There Henry brought himself up with a jolt. He absolutely refused to suspect.
He had suffer'd much the water came out of the wound, by slow but steady quantities, for many weeks so that he lay almost constantly in a sort of puddle and there were other disagreeable circumstances. He was of good heart, however. At present comparatively comfortable, had a bad throat, was delighted with a stick of horehound candy I gave him, with one or two other trifles. February 23.
Then Betsy led her away again out of doors, where everybody was walking back and forth under the bright September sky, blowing on horns, waving plumes of brilliant tissue- paper, tickling each other with peacock feathers, and eating pop-corn and candy out of paper bags. That reminded Molly that they had ten cents yet. "Oh, Betsy," she proposed, "let's take a nickel of our money for some pop-corn."
"This seems to be going on better," said Lawrence, "but Mr Candy doesn't show much in the affair. Who is managing it? You?" The girl blushed and then laughed, a little confusedly. "I am only the cashier," she said. "And the laborious duties of your position would, of course, give you no time for anything else," remarked Lawrence.
Tim got an invitation to that, too, through his loyal friends, Henry Burns and Jack Harvey; and he and Joe Warren ate more than any four others, and Young Joe, who had absconded with the most of a huge mince pie, left over from the dinner, was found afterward groaning on the kitchen sofa, and had to be dosed with ginger and peppermint, so that he could partake of cornballs and maple candy later on.
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