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To make cocoa, the oil is extracted, when the beans are ground into a paste. To make chocolate, the oil is not extracted." "I never ate a cocoa bean which was sweet; but a chocolate-drop is sweet," said Filippa, who had bought chocolate-drops in the candy stores. Her father explained: "We add sugar and vanilla, to the brown cocoa bean paste."
It was untrue, and it was improper, but for a moment or two at least my hungry heart closed about that speech the same as a child's hand closes about a chocolate-drop. Women are made that way. But I had to keep to the trail. "Supposing we get back to earth," I suggested. "What's the matter with the way we were heading?" countered the quiet-eyed Peter. "It doesn't seem quite right," I argued.
When a colored person was in the way, it was, 'Melt chocolate-drop! and when he shouted at a white man, it was: 'Clear the way to hell! a foreigner rides with me." "Boy," said Leighton, speaking through several folds of towel and the open connecting-door, "if you ever find your brains running to seed, get a job as a cabman. There's something about a cab, the world over, that breeds wit."
"For shame, Mrs. Purcell!" cried Marguerite. "You're not sweet-tempered, or you'd like sweet dainties yourself. Here are nuts swathed in syrup; you'll have none of them? Here are health and slumber and idle dreams in a chocolate-drop. Not a chocolate? Here are dates; if you wouldn't choose the things in themselves, truly you would for their associations?
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