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We had luncheon in the Della Robbia room at the Vanderbilt and I was digging the marrons out of a Nesselrode when, presto, it suddenly came over me that the baroness was right and that I could never marry a foreigner. It came like a thunderclap.
'If I were you, I should send a telegram to Tennyson, and tell him to look out for himself. Here's a telegraph-office. Come on. And Tom actually did enter a doorway. But it proved to be the entrance to a large and magnificent confectioner's shop. Henry followed him timidly. 'A pound of marrons glacés, Tom demanded. 'What are they? Henry whispered up at Tom's ear.
The marrons glacés were arranged neatly in a beautiful box; the box was wrapped in paper of one colour, and then further wrapped in paper of another colour, and finally bound in pink ribbon. 'Golly! murmured Henry in amaze, for Tom had put down a large silver coin in payment, and received no change. They came out, Henry carrying the parcel.
With care and elaboration they ornamented that tree's lower branches with sugar-topped biscuits, oranges, bits of banana, and marrons glares till it looked very ape's path to Paradise. "Unchain the Gyascutis!" said Sir Christopher commandingly. Giuseppe placed the monkey atop of the organ, where the beast, misunderstanding, stood on his head.
Suddenly everything was ready; the crisp, smoking-hot French loaf, the big, brown jar of bubbling and odorous chicken, the lettuce curled in its bowl, the long- necked bottles in their straw cases, and cheeses and crackers and olives and figs and tiny fish in oil and marrons in fluted paper that were a part of all Peter's dinners.
"Chocolates, marrons glacis, crystallised peaches, French bon-bons, plums. I don't recognise them by head mark. These are too sticky... These look uncommonly good!" The big fingers hovered over each dish in turn, lifting sample specimens, and placing them on Claire's plate, whence they were swiftly conveyed to her bag. Not a single sweetmeat touched her own lips.
Such tributes to her beauty were minor joys, to be classed with the pleasure to be derived from marrons glacés or the scent of violets, but the remembrance of them did not often make her dream by day or bring a flush to her cheeks. She roused herself presently and began to look out of the window with the remorseful feeling of one who has been neglecting an old friend for an acquaintance.
When she's paid, she'll suddenly buy such rot as marrons glaces, and then I have to buy her season ticket, and her extras, even her underclothing. And she wants to get married, and I think myself we might as well get married next year. But at this rate " "A fine mess of a marriage it would be," replied his mother. "I should consider it again, my boy."
'But he's been eating marrons glacés every day for a fortnight. Haven't you, sweetest? said Geraldine. 'I can believe it, Aunt Annie murmured, 'from his face. 'Oh dear! Women! Women! Henry whispered facetiously. 'He's only saving his appetite for dinner, said Geraldine, with intrepid calm. 'My dear girl, Mrs.
Having thus by a trick captured her attention, he made a pleased sort of gesture toward the breast-pocket of his fat-man's coat, and, while she passed silent within a foot of him, said quite eagerly: "I I got the marrons!" In which Mr. Canning must go South for his Health, and Cally lies awake to think. Midnight stillness hung over the House of Heth, five doors from Mr. Beirne's.
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