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Descending the stairs I found my uncle already engaged upon breakfast. He seemed in high good-humour, and roasted me heartily upon my unpunctuality. 'Brownie' came in at that moment carrying some scones, and I noted out of the tail of my eye that he looked extremely haggard and miserable.
"I've seen her do 't mysel'," said Sam'l. "There's no a lassie mak's better bannocks this side o' Fetter Lums," continued Pete. "Her mither tocht her that," said Sam'l; "she was a gran' han' at the bakin', Kitty Ogilvy." "I've heard say," remarked Jamie, putting it this way so as not to tie himself down to anything, "'at Bell's scones is equal to Mag Lunan's."
Grant, telephone for an Associated Press reporter and give him this." "I'll copy it off for him," said Grant. Madam Bowker and Craig exchanged amused glances. "You'll give it to him in Madam Bowker's handwriting," ordered Craig. "You told Scones to keep his mouth shut, when you paid him?" The other three looked conscious, and Margaret reddened slightly at this coarse brusqueness of phrase.
They all trooped into the dining-room, but Timmy was the only one who did full justice to the cakes and scones which had been made specially in Godfrey Radmore's honour: all the others felt cross and disappointed, especially Tom and Rosamund, who had given up going to a tennis-party.
"And would both come on here afterwards to an early tea," continued Bessie, taking no notice of the interruption. "Aunt Mary desired that you would not have hot scones for tea, as Aunt Aggie is always depressed after them. She said there was no objection to them cold, and buttered, but not hot." "I shall have tea in my own room then," once more broke in Fay. "I can't stand Aunt Mary.
She took up an earthen jar from the gravelly bed and filled the girl's pail with buttermilk. "Thank you, Mrs. Boyle. And now for that recipe for the scones." "Och, yes!" said Mrs. Boyle. "There's no recipe at all. It is just this way " And she elucidated the mysteries of sconemaking. "But they will not taste a bit like yours, I'm sure," cried Margaret, in despair. "Never you fear, lassie.
It was a happy week which Georgiana spent in the fine, classic old town, walking or driving with Allison, exploring quaint, winding streets, ancient halls, and flowery closes; or meeting interesting people of all ranks, from the chancellor of the University himself to the young undergraduates who offered her in their old and dingy but distinguished rooms tea and toasted scones, along with their fresh-cheeked admiration.
He was conscious at once of that same sense of challenge that he had felt with Barbour in the morning. They were not obviously staring, but he knew that they were rapidly summing him up. He coloured foolishly, and stood for a moment awkwardly in the middle of the room. "Tea, Harry?" said Clare. "Scones down by the fire. Everybody else is all right so look after yourself."
The bed, with its checked coverlid, was in a closet. A great Bible lay on the table; and her drawers were full of 'scones, which it was her pleasure to give to young visitors such as I was then. You may not think this a melancholy picture; but the canary, and the cat, and the white mouse that she had for a while, and that died, were all indications of the want that ate into her heart.
It was the "peat-casting" for the priest; every one had worked with a will young and old. Dinner had been sent up to the moss at noon by the various housewives of the district. It was a sumptuous repast, as usual on so great an occasion; chickens, oatcake, scones, cheese, and abundance of milk had been thoroughly enjoyed by the workers.
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