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The Countess's step was heard approaching, but just before entering she stopped at the head of the stairs. "Thou hast given the girl her dinner, Levina?" "Oh yes, my Lady!" "What had she?" "I brought her apple-pie, if it please my Lady, and cheese, and gateau de Dijon, and ham, and a few other little things: but she would not touch the ham, and scarcely the cheese."
"Would you mind, Miss Haviland, if I smoke?" "Of course not," she replied. "Some ladies find it offensive," he said, opening the case slowly, "but I find it the perfect finish to a delightful meal." "I couldn't agree more." Gretchen pushed away her plate the gateau though small, was simply too rich and sat back upon her chair.
Nor were the good folks of those days without their simnels, cracknels, and other sorts of cakes for the table, among which in the wastel we recognise the equivalent of the modern French gâteau. A bushel of wheat, in a romance of the thirteenth century, is estimated to produce twenty loaves; but the statement is obviously to be taken with allowance.
The church or one of its pensioners needs money; so instead of denying ourselves some secular amusement, cutting short our chablis, terrapin, pate de foie gras, gateau, Grec, Amontillado; wearing less sealskin and sables, buying fewer pigeon-blood rubies, absolutely mortifying the flesh in order to offer a contribution out of our pockets to God, how ingeniously we devise schemes to extract the largest possible amount of purely personal pleasure from the expenditure of the sum, we call our contribution to charity?
"Was there something else?" she asked, setting her silver carefully atop her empty plate. "No, nothing," he laughed, putting down his own silver. Presently, their plates were cleared away and the professor ordered a liqueur with coffee. Gretchen declined a liqueur, having drunk enough wine already to raise her color slightly she settled for coffee and a small gateau.
The 'petticoat tails' she requested me to buy at the confectioner's were somewhat more puzzling, but when they were finally purchased by Susanna Crum they appeared to be ordinary little cakes; perhaps, therefore, petits gastels, since gastel is an old form of gateau, as was bel for beau.
The three Matzoth Shimmurim used in the Haggadah Service were made with especial care, and in medieval times were denominated Priest, Levite, Israelite, in order to discriminate among them. Picard, by an amusing blunder, speaks of a gateau des levites; he, of course, means the middle cake.
David relinquished her, and the mother took the little trembling creature on her knee. 'Be quiet then, she said to her roughly, always in French, 'I didn't hurt you. There! Veux-tu du gateau? She cut some with eager fingers and held it to Cecile's lips. The child turned away, silently refusing it, the tears rolling down her cheeks.
Oct. 6 Germany asks President Wilson for armistice. Oct. 7 Americans capture hills around Argonne. Oct. 8 President Wilson refuses armistice. Oct. 9 Allies capture Cambrai. Oct. 10 Allies capture Le Gateau. Oct. 11 American transport Otranto torpedoed and sunk; 500 lost. Oct. 13 Foch's troops take Laon and La Fere.
Brown, who wore a black China silk wrapper and was always presentable, went to the door where a small boy in a long white linen apron and a baker's cap stood with a huge flat basket on his head. "Un gâteau pour Madame Brune." "But we have not ordered a cake." But the small boy was sure it was a cake for Mrs.
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