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Her dinner pail swung from her right hand, and she had a blissful consciousness of the two soda biscuits spread with butter and syrup, the baked cup-custard, the doughnut, and the square of hard gingerbread. Sometimes she said whatever "piece" she was going to speak on the next Friday afternoon.
What will you select as a dessert? Plum, rice, bread, or cherry pudding? Apple, mince, cranberry, plum, peach, or lemon pie? Cup-custard, tapioca, watermelon, citron, or sherry, maderia, or port. Order which ever you choose, gentlemen, it don't make any difference to us. We can give you one just as well as the other."
Nobody but Jennings shared Bertha's hallucination that she could cook, and he was the recipient of special dishes, such delicacies as cup-custard, and toast.
Jewel felt almost embarrassed by the eminence to which her child was suddenly raised. "Oh, thank you, Mrs. Forbes," she said; "you needn't take so much trouble. Anna Belle's just used to having a part of mine." But nothing now was too good for Anna Belle. "She shall have a cup-custard to-morrow," returned the housekeeper. Mrs. Evringham looked on with lack-lustre eyes.
Vida is kind of took off her feet, but mumbles "Yes, sir!" and puts his card in her bag. Me? I was too mad to talk, seeing the girl get into the mill again when I'd tried so hard to get her out. But I swore to myself I'd stick round and try to get some sense into the cup-custard she called her brain.
Her dinner pail swung from her right hand, and she had a blissful consciousness of the two soda biscuits spread with butter and syrup, the baked cup-custard, the doughnut, and the square of hard gingerbread. Sometimes she said whatever "piece" she was going to speak on the next Friday afternoon.
For dinner, which should always be given in the middle of the day, an oyster-stew or clam broth, a lamb chop, or a very small piece of beefsteak or chicken; but with these there must be no gravies or dressings; a potato baked in the skin; raw tomatoes, if in season; apple sauce or cranberry; celery; junket, plain corn-starch, lemon jelly, plain cup-custard.
Yes, girl-love is a kind of cup-custard, but wife-love is bread and butter milk toast, for instance bless her! But I am hungry!" The major's expression was a tragedy. "I'm going to try and beg you off, Major, dear," said Caroline Darrah, and she hurried after Mrs. Matilda into Tempie's domain. "Major," said David as he gazed after the girl, "when I look at her I feel cold all over, then hot-mad!
The plump girl next to Ruth seemed of a friendly disposition, for when she had satisfied the first cravings of her appetite oh, long before she came to the cup-custard! she said: "Which are you Cameron, or Fielding? I'm Stone Jennie Stone." Ruth told her their names and asked in return: "Are you on our corridor, too? I know you are rooming in the same building as Helen and I."
You will be seated in the Junior division. It is probable that you will be placed in that grade permanently. Mrs. Tellingham will see you in her office in the next building immediately after supper." Ruth and Helen followed the doll-like teacher to their seats. "Oh, I hope they'll be seated soon," Ruth heard this over-plump girl murmur. "This is cup-custard night, and I'm so-o hungry."
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