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He dismissed them roughly, but new processes of thought had been opened, new emotions awakened. Meanwhile, little Rose's response to his clumsy tenderness taught him many unsuspected lessons. He never would have believed the pleasure there could be in simply watching a child's eyes light with glee over a five-cent bag of candy.
She was wearing her scarlet cloak, and her eloquent dusky features were illumined with conflicting emotions. "I did not know," she said as I was getting the box of candy. "I did not know that people could be so kind." "It is Christmas," explained my friend lightly. "And we always like to be jolly, you know. When is Mr. Carville due?" A swift shadow crossed her face and was gone.
I meet in every street persons lugging home their little trees; for it must be a very poor household that cannot have its Christmas tree, on which are hung the scanty store of candy, nuts, and fruit, and the simple toys that the needy people will pinch themselves otherwise to obtain.
Then the mighty treasures of sugarplums, white and crimson and yellow, in large glass vases, and candy of all varieties, and those little cockles or whatever they are called much prized by children for their sweetness, and more for the mottoes which they enclose, by love-sick maids and bachelors!
"Nothing wrong outside, is there, Hippy?" she asked quickly as the lieutenant came in rather hurriedly. "No. I'm after candy." "That is fine. Buying candy for Nora and the girls," glowed Grace. "My husband seldom thinks to bring me candy, and " "For Nora? No. I'm getting the candy for the bronco and the bull pup trying to buy my way into their good graces, as it were.
He was not a brave boy yet by any means, but he had made a beginning; yes, that very morning he had made a beginning. "Don't you tease Henry Small any more, I don't like it at all," said Katharine to Joseph Rolfe. And then she slipped a paper of choice candy into Joe's hand, charging him "not to eat it in school, now remember."
The Russian gave him great rolls of roubles of various sorts for his greenbacks. Then he took the good money on the ships in the harbor and bought, usually through a sailor, boxes of candy and cartons of cigarettes and, whisper this, bottles and cases of whiskey of which thousands of cases found their way to Archangel.
For if he had fallen inside the bathroom he would have toppled down on the hard, tiled floor, and have been broken to pieces. As it was, falling out of the window, he had a better chance. Down, down, down, out of the window fell the Candy Rabbit. He fell so fast that his breath was taken away. He felt himself drying fast.
"I am going to sell candy," said Katy, pausing to notice the effect of this startling declaration. "You know what nice molasses candy you used to make for me. Mrs. Sneed and Mrs. Colvin said a great many times that it was a good deal better than they could buy at the shops." "But, child, I am not able to make candy now. I cannot get off my bed."
"You girls have an hour yet before you go on," Russ informed them. "We haven't anything to do until then, either. Want to take a run in to town? I've got to call at the express office for some extra film, and the auto is ready. Where's Ruth?" "Up in her room. I'll go for her," offered Alice. "Shall we have time?" "Plenty. You can even buy yourself some candy or let us do it for you," laughed Paul.
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