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In spite of her trailing silk or velvet dresses, twenty times a day I would find her in the larder, with a loaf under her arm and a knife in her hand, contentedly buttering thick slices of bread, which she would eat slowly in huge mouthfuls, looking straight before her as she did so. She was bored; and I was powerless to cure this unfamiliar ill. I looked out some work for her in my busy life.
It was the first time Melicent ever knew him to display any emotion. But the mood passed, and he said only: "Who forbids it? In any event, there is a venerable adage concerning the buttering of parsnips. So I content myself with asking you to remember that I have not ever faltered. I shall not falter now. You loathe me. Who forbids it?
Any of the rules last mentioned become drop cakes by buttering muffin-tins or tin sheets, and dropping a teaspoonful of these mixtures into them. If on sheets, let them be two inches apart. Sift sugar over the top, and bake in a quick oven. They are done as soon as brown. One pint of boiling water in a saucepan. Melt in it a piece of butter the size of an egg. Add half a teaspoonful of salt.
"Only worse!" he added. Rose-Marie laid down the bit of roll that she had been buttering and turned reproachful eyes upon the Young Doctor. "Oh, but they're not," she cried; "you don't understand, or you wouldn't talk that way. You don't understand!" Quite after the maddening fashion of men the doctor did not answer until he had consumed, and appreciatively, the last of the roll he was eating.
A young Toronto poet who had learned the trick of buttering an envelope and in it neatly shirring an egg over a gas jet was first reminded that he was four weeks behind in his rent and then sadly yet firmly ejected from the top-floor skylight room. So Trotter, once back in his own quarters, moved about with a caution not untouched with apprehension. Mrs.
On the contrary, it is a great scrape to find you have been boring some one who did not care a d about the matter, so to speak; and that you might have been as well employed in buttering a whin-stone. Mr. and Mrs. Philips left us about twelve day bad. I wrote nearly five pages of Chronicles. August 16. A wet, disagreeable, sulky day, but such things may be carried to account.
He was a stout fellow, and by taking a short rest, had recovered sufficiently to come in with some degree of spirit; nevertheless, it was evident to all that he was "used up," for, "it is not the distance but the pace that kills!" He found the fishermen at dinner, buttering their cakes with the bear's grease that had been discovered on the way down.
"I must say," she began, buttering a piece of bread energetically, "that it isn't like us Outdoor Girls to let anything scare us into staying near the house. Why, I declare, I don't believe there is one of us who would dare poke her nose past that rose bush in front of the porch after sundown. That's a pretty state of affairs, isn't it?"
He felt faintly disgruntled at not foreseeing this exigency and buttering two biscuits while they were hot, or even three. He considered momentarily a project of going after a hot biscuit for himself, but eventually put it by. South of the Mason-Dixon Line, self- help is half-scandal.
From the manner in which he approached the task of buttering his hot cakes Shirley knew he had something more to say and was merely formulating a polite set of phrases in which to express himself. She resolved to help him along. "I dare say it's quite all right to have invited him; isn't it, Uncle Seth?" "Certainly, certainly, my dear. Quite all right, but er ah, slightly inconvenient."
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