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Updated: May 8, 2025
But, that very afternoon, she took it out again and set it on the table on a glass cake-stand. She put some leaves around it to make it look nice, and it noticed there were a great many other things on the table, and they all looked fresh and bright. "This is all in my honour," it said. "They know I am rich." Then several people came in and took chairs around the table.
Before the large, paper-decorated fireplace stood a three-tiered cake-stand displaying assorted cakes, and a tray with all the tea equipage except the teapot, was on the large centre-table. The carpet was thick, and a spice of adventure was given it by a number of dyed sheep-skin mats. "Hello!" said my aunt as I appeared. "It's George!"
"But oh unkind you 've forgotten the sugar." He gazed helplessly at the tea-table. Anthony brought him the sugar-bowl. "Are those cruffins?" he asked, eyeing a dish on the cake-stand. "They 're mumpers," said Miss Sandus, pushing the cake-stand towards him. "But you 're keeping us on tenter-hooks." "I 'm so sorry. It's beyond my control. I must eat a mumpet.
"'Do you know, said he, looking shyly at Hollins, 'that I begin to think Beer must be a natural beverage? There was an auction in the village to-day, as I passed through, and I stopped at a cake-stand to get a glass of water, as it was very hot. There was no water, only beer: so I thought I would try a glass, simply as an experiment. Really, the flavor was very agreeable.
A large cake stood on a glass cake-stand in the middle of the table, flanked on one side by a deep glass dish full of canned peaches, on the other by a similar one of floating island, while all the available remaining space was occupied by pies, apple-pies, custard, berry-pies, cream-pies.
Tea was nearly over; the cake-stand in four storeys had been depleted from attic to basement, and, after admiring the daintiness and taste displayed throughout Mrs. Henry's drawing-room, the ladies from Dawes Road had reached the most fascinating of all topics. 'When you keep several, said Geraldine, 'they are not so hard to get. It's loneliness they object to.
"'Do you know, said he, looking shyly at Hollins, 'that I begin to think Beer must be a natural beverage? There was an auction in the village to-day, as I passed through, and I stopped at a cake-stand to get a glass of water, as it was very hot. There was no water only beer: so I thought I would try a glass, simply as an experiment. Really, the flavor was very agreeable.
It appeared to Doggie, handing round the three-tiered silver cake-stand, that he had returned to some forgotten former incarnation. The delicate china cup in his hand seemed too frail for the material usages of life and he feared lest he should break it with rough handling. Old habit, however, prevailed, and no one noticed his sense of awkwardness. The talk lay chiefly between Oliver and himself.
"The next day, Abel, who had resumed his researches after the True Food, came home to supper with a healthier color than I had before seen on his face. "'Do you know, said he, looking shyly at Hollins, 'that I begin to think Beer must be a natural beverage? There was an auction in the village to-day, as I passed through, and I stopped at a cake-stand to get a glass of water, as it was very hot.
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