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She knew the tea gown was an excellent French model, a hand-me-down from Gay's sister, and her nimble fingers had cleaned and mended the trailing pink-silk loveliness until it would make quite a satisfactory first impression. She cleaned the apartment, recklessly bought cut flowers, bonbons, and two fashion magazines to give an impression of plenty.
Many who are now occupying influential positions owe their first start or have had the path smoothed for them by her kindness. As in many Berlin families, the Christmas Man came to us an old man disguised by a big beard and provided with a bag filled with nuts and bonbons and sometimes trifling gifts.
I entreat you to correct this villainous fault which will make you despised by all the world." Gourmandinet kissed her hand and promised to reform. But, alas! he continued to steal cakes from the kitchen and bonbons from the store-room. Often, indeed, he was whipped for his disobedience and gluttony.
The bedrooms were prettily furnished, and the dressing-rooms attached fitted up with a tiled bath, hot and cold water, and numberless mirrors. The wives of the great Court and State officials, as well as many other ladies, have one afternoon in the week on which they sit at home and receive visitors. There is always tea and Russian bonbons, which are most excellent.
It is not a piece, it is a 'tableau vivant', 'The judgment of Paris. You know 'The Judgment of Paris'? I take the part of Venus I did not want to, but they all urged me give me a pin on the mantelpiece near the bag of bonbons there to the left, next to the jewel-case close by the bottle of gum standing on my prayer-book. Can't you see? Ah! at last.
Now I have learnt that life is to be used, not just held in the hand like a box of bonbons that nobody eats." She looked at him blankly. "I mean, I don't think I get enough out of life," he said. "Let's go." They got to their feet. "What do you mean?" she said slowly. "One takes what life gives, that is all, there's no choice.... But look, there's the Malmaison train.... We must run."
She had had everything a girl could have: kindness, admiration, bonbons, bouquets, the sense of exclusion from none of the privileges of the world she lived in, abundant opportunity for dancing, plenty of new dresses, the London Spectator, the latest publications, the music of Gounod, the poetry of Browning, the prose of George Eliot.
Taciturnity is a big thing when you know how to work it, and so is proneness to irritability. The latter keeps you from making friends, and I didn't want any friends just then. They were luxuries which I couldn't afford. You have to lend money to friends; you have to give them dinners and cigars, and send bonbons to their sisters.
I looked for bonbons to carry home to the children, but when I saw some tempting looking almonds and candies and mottoes, to my surprise I found they were all composed of fish put up in this form, and the mottoes were of salad."
No bridge was visible in either direction, and the bank was bare save for a few low bushes on which grew maple bonbons and maple caramels. But Prince Fiddlecumdoo did not mean to be turned back by so small a matter as a river, so he scooped a hole in the maple sand, and having filled it with syrup from the river, lighted a match and began boiling it.
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