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Updated: May 11, 2025
They would buy lots of things every time the cake-woman came and she came every day till they'd spent all their money. You can't always have cakes, you know, and then you'll miss them." "But I shall have cakes always." answered Dr. John. "Nobody has them always," she said, in an authoritative tone, "and you won't like being poor.
He went about from table to table, sometimes betting high and sometimes low, but was generally successful, until he had won as much as he could fairly carry; after which he went out, and amused himself at a puppet-show, and the stall of a cake-woman, with whom he had formerly quarrelled, but who now, when she learnt his success, was obsequiously civil to him.
No during those first two years the only pleasures, so memory declared, were three: the visits of the cake-woman on Saturday Marcella sitting in her window could still taste the three-cornered puffs and small sweet pears on which, as much from a fierce sense of freedom and self-assertion as anything else, she had lavished her tiny weekly allowance; the mad games of "tig," which she led and organised in the top playground; and the kindnesses of fat Mademoiselle Rénier, Miss Frederick's partner, who saw a likeness in Marcella to a long-dead small sister of her own, and surreptitiously indulged "the little wild-cat," as the school generally dubbed the Speaker's great-niece, whenever she could.
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