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There was a venison pasty, of all things, a large broad-faced cut ham, eggs and cresses and red beet-root, and medlars and apple-tart, and tea. 'What GOOD things! she cried with pleasure. 'How noble it looks! shall I pour out the tea? She was usually nervous and uncertain at performing these public duties, such as giving tea.
Sylvia and Hetty had awakened when the farmer brought Sibyl Ray into the pleasant farmhouse kitchen. The twin-boys were absent at school, and only the little twins came down to dinner. The beef, potatoes, dumplings, apple-tart and cream were all A1, and Sibyl was just as glad of the meal as were the two Vivian girls.
Whilst Jimmy kneeled down on the hearth-rug rubbing the head of the tabby cat, Jones laid the cloth, and then he went away again and returned with a plate of hot roast-beef and Yorkshire pudding and potatoes and cauliflower. He placed a chair with its back to the fire, and told Jimmy to ring when he was ready for some apple-tart.
Hodges, he said, was quite displeased at their being all sent away. She could not bear that her master should not be able to have another apple-tart this spring. He told Patty this, but bid her not mind it, and be sure not to say any thing to us about it, for Mrs. Hodges would be cross sometimes, and as long as so many sacks were sold, it did not signify who ate the remainder.
Then they stirred up the brackish "holy" water and put their fingers in it. "It smells like lavender and roses," said Lottchen. "Well, you've got a funny nose; it smells to me like blackberry and apple-tart," said Trudel. "Ha ha he!" said a little voice again. Somebody was laughing. Where could he be?
We ate our beef in silence. Existence seemed hollow and uninteresting. We thought of the happy days of childhood, and sighed. We brightened up a bit, however, over the apple-tart, and, when George drew out a tin of pine- apple from the bottom of the hamper, and rolled it into the middle of the boat, we felt that life was worth living after all. We are very fond of pine-apple, all three of us.
"Now I'll be even with you for that sawdust," cried he, as he pocketed two boiled eggs, and bit an immense piece out of an apple-tart, which he would have demolished completely but for the prompt interposition of its owner. "Oh! my golly! Charlie, your mother makes good pies!" he exclaimed with rapture, as soon as he could get his mouth sufficiently clear to speak.
It was lighted by candles only. We were seven in all, and I sate by Father Payne. Dinner was very plain. There was soup, a joint with vegetables, and a great apple-tart. The things were mostly passed about from hand to hand, but the old butler kept a benignant eye upon the proceedings, and saw that I was well supplied.
"And you got me such good things!" "Ah! that was different," Beth rejoined. Charlotte stole downstairs. Her father had been out seeing his patients all day, and had not troubled about her. She returned with chicken and ham, cold apple-tart and cream, and a little jug of cider.
But the pride of learning upheld the others and they chanted in singsong chorus, swaying rhythmically the while from leg to leg: "The friendly cow all red and white, I love with all my heart: She gives me cream with all her might, To eat with apple-tart Robert Louis Stevenson." Becky's tears ceased. "Be there cows in the Central Park?" she demanded. "Sure," said Patrick.
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