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The ladies of the Pension Magnotte were for the most part of mature age and unattractive appearance two or three lonely spinsters, eking out their pitiful little incomes as best they might, by the surreptitious sale of delicate embroideries, confectioned in their dismal leisure; and a fat elderly widow, popularly supposed to be enormously rich, but of miserly propensities.
At her accustomed hour, and instead of the rude gigot a l'eau, which was ordinarily served at her too simple table, I sent her up a little potage a la Reine a la Reine Blanche I called it, as white as her own tint and confectioned with the most fragrant cream and almonds.
It is called The Way into Print, but it does not treat, as the reader might rashly suppose, of the best method of getting your name into the newspapers, either as a lady who is giving a dinner to thirteen otherwise unknown persons, or is making a coming-out tea for her débutante daughter, or had a box full of expensively confectioned friends at the opera or the vaudeville, or is going to read a paper at a woman's club, or is in any sort figuring in the thousand and one modern phases of publicity; it does not even advise her guests or hearers how to appear among those present, or those who were invited and did not come, or those who would not have come if they had been invited.
Reproof is by nature harsh and biting, but confectioned in sweetness and warmed through and through in the fire of charity, it becomes salutary, pleasant, and even delightful. The just will correct me with mercy, and the oil of the flatterer shall not anoint my head.
Ame is confectioned from malted millet and is virtually the same as the malt extract of the Occident. This tradition of the golden kite is cherished in Japan. The "Order of the Golden Kite" is the most coveted military distinction. From this incident the place where the battle occurred was called Tabi-no-mura, a name now corrupted into Tomi-no-mura.
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