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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Yes, but in point of companionship one would prefer that she should be represented by her brandy-cherries and cream-cakes. I think with a shudder that her daughter will always be present in person, and have no agreeable proxies of that kind, a fat, blond girl, with round blue eyes, who will stare at us silently."
Bless my soul! our words used to come out like brandy-cherries; but now a sentence is like raspberry-jam, on the stage and off." Cibber chuckled. "And why don't you men carry yourself like Cibber here?" "Don't press that question," said Colley dryly.
Monsieur Tudesco consumed brandy-cherries in a very elegant way. Then the waiter served two dantzigs in little glass cups. Jean admired the translucent liquor dotted with golden sparkles, and Monsieur Tudesco demanded two more. Then, raising his cup on high: "I drink to the health of Monsieur Servien, your venerable father," he cried.
Of all things in the world he thought anything sordid the most repugnant. Monsieur Tudesco, feeling sure his brandy-cherries would be paid for, did not trouble himself to talk, and the conversation was languishing when the architect remarked casually: "By-the-by!
"You ate too much at dinner," he said shortly. "You oughtn't to have taken that brandy-cherries ice." They had very soon got past the stage during which Donnington had tried to say pretty things to Bubbles. "Perhaps I did" he felt the gurgle of amusement in her voice. "I was very hungry, and the food here is very good. It must be costing a lot of money all this sort of thing. How nice to be rich!
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