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She helped herself to a jam-puff, and offered the dish to Peter, with an engaging smile. He helped himself absently. "I don't deny I am fond of taking meals in the open air, and more especially on the top of the moor," said Sarah, with a sigh of content. "What has she come for?" said Peter. "I shall be better able to tell you when I have seen her." "Don't you know?" "I can pretty well guess.

Poor old Robert and exams, and beastly, bullying fathers and hard-upness the latter more especially were all supremely funny. But Robert would not look at the jam-puff which she pushed across to him. "Thanks. I hate the beastly stuff." And yet it was a flaky thing, oozing, as Rufus had declared, with real raspberry jam. And he was very young. But he would not give way. Could not.

The whole imbroglio was very simple, very natural. They had first met at my own rich cake and jam-puff bespread tea-table. When Randall went into the office to speak, presumably, about a defective draught in the kitchen range, and really about things quite different, the ethics of the matter depended entirely on Randall's point of view.

Many people despise sandwiches and milk out of beer-bottles and bananas and seed-cake. Jeremy, of course, did not. But the paper on this journey to Rafield! There was nothing in the world to touch it. Jam-puffs with strawberry jam eaten in the odour of ginger-beer and eggshells! Is it possible for life at its very best to hold more? He kept his jam-puff so long as he could, until at last Mr.

In her absence I begged her forgiveness, fell on my knees before her, assured her of my profound repentance and once, when I met a girl in the street slightly resembling her, I took to my heels without looking back, and only breathed freely in a cook-shop after the fifth jam-puff.

"Was I impatient?" He felt her humour flicker up like a flame in the darkness. "I suppose I was. It was the jam-puff. You hurt their feelings. And it was such a little thing." "I hate jam-puffs," he said, but humbly, because it was not the truth, and he could never explain. "Come with us, Robert." "I can't." "But you want to come?" "That's just it. I don't know why.