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A few minutes afterward, the children were running up the stone steps of their own home. "We had such a good time," Hans told his mother, while Bertha went to Gretchen and gave her some cakes she had brought her from the coffee-party. "I'm so sorry you couldn't go," she told her sister. "Perhaps I can next time," answered Gretchen.
The dynamo was probably needed for Edison's own experiments. On the outskirts of the property was a small building in which lampblack was crudely but carefully manufactured and pressed into very small cakes, for use in the Edison carbon transmitters of that time.
And it was flattering to be the only lady of note and have homage paid to her. So the children sought Wanamee, and while Pani brought some sticks and soon had a bed of coals, Wanamee stirred up some cakes of rye and maize, and the boy prepared a fish for cooking. He was indeed hungry, and his eyes glistened with the delight of eating. "It smells so good," said Rose. "Wanamee, bring me a piece.
He led her to a small table which he had reserved for another charming duet of tea, cakes, and conversation. At this second meeting, Madame bent herself to the deft cross-examination of Rust "Had the Captain Rouille joined St. Cyr as a cadet officer, or had he served in the ranks of the French Army?"
Chocolate, light cakes, and fruit were at once served. "We had best visit the gardens first, before the sun gains too much power. There are charming arbors and pavilions, in shady spots, for taking one's ease at the middle of the day; but for walking about, the early hours are the best."
"Won't you just step in and take dinner with us?" he asked of the young man with a friendliness to which everything appeared to minister. "Well, that's a handsome offer," George Flack replied while Delia put it on record that they had each eaten about thirty cakes. "Well, I wondered what you were doing so long. But never mind your cakes.
The harbor was unguarded, and its occupation as a rendezvous by English men-of-war had made it very hard for the people to get provisions. So it was no wonder that Anne looked at the ginger cakes and tarts as special delicacies, too precious to lie in the sand. "I'll go to the outer beach by myself," decided Anne, "but I will not eat my share of the luncheon.
Some held crewels and crimped white cakes of wax, gayly colored reticule beads with a wooden spoon for a penny measure, and "strawberry" emery balls. There was a West India store and a place where they sold oil and candles, another had charts for mariners; while across the way stood the East India Marine Hall.
Becky and Tiza had filled two tumblers with meadow-sweet and blue campanula, which stood up grandly in the middle, and there were two home-made cakes at each end, and some of Sally's brown eggs, and piles of tempting bread and butter.
It was a Puritan city, in which strict old Roundhead sentiments and laws used to prevail; but now-a-days ginger is hot in the mouth there, and, in spite of the war, there were cakes and ale. There was a law passed in Massachusetts in the old days that any girl should be fined and imprisoned who allowed a young man to kiss her.
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