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"Good-night, you blessed old sweet thing, you!" and with twenty kisses, and a strangling hug, the merry child ran off to dream, not of students in elevated hats, but of creams and comfits, and pleased guests around a long table; for she was but a large-hearted, hospitable matron in embryo. The party was really a brilliant success. Mrs.
And now a probable customer at Porthampton had been found, and Dick had departed by train to see whether the sale could be effected. "I've twenty cents left. Is there money enough in the crowd to buy five ice creams?" asked Tom Reade, displaying two dimes. "I've a whole half dollar, though you won't believe it until you see it," laughed Dave Darrin. "Then there's enough for cream," decided Tom.
Mamma said he was to ask the drug store man for ten cents' worth of paregoric in the bottle; he was to keep his hand shut tight over the dollar; he must not stop to talk to anyone in the street; he must ask the drug-store man to wrap up the change and put it in the pocket of his trousers. Indeed, they had pockets two of them! And he liked chocolate creams best.
"They're trying the passage through Craggeen," said Priscilla, with her eyes on Flanagan's old boat "That shows they're pretty desperate. Hand me the peppermint creams. There's jolly little water there at this time of the tide. It'll be sheer luck if they get through." "Take five or six peppermints," said Miss Rutherford, "if you feel that they'll steady your nerves.
Suppers at balls and parties include now all sorts of cold and hot dishes, even a haunch of venison, and a fillet of beef, with truffles; a cold salmon dressed with a green sauce; oysters in every form except raw they are not served at balls; salads of every description; boned and truffled turkey and chicken; pft,s of game; cold partridges and grouse; pft, de foie gras; our American specialty, hot canvas-back duck; and the Baltimore turtle, terrapin, oyster and game patties; bonbons, ices, biscuits, creams, jellies, and fruits, with champagne, and sometimes, of later years, claret and Moselle cup, and champagne-cup beverages which were not until lately known in America, except at gentlemen's clubs and on board yachts, but which are very agreeable mixtures, and gaining in favor.
And then you know, I ain't no general housework girl, anyways, I've always cooked before; but here I have to do everything, besides waitin' on a woman as isn't any sicker than what I be. If you knew the money she spends on choc'late creams and headache powders and the trashy novels she reads, you'd wonder she ain't even yellower than what she is."
"I don't exactly run it, but I do my best to drag it along and it's rather awkward from my being a new-comer; pice and rupees are novelties, and everything is supposed to be in German fashion." "German fashion!" echoed Shafto. "What's that?" "Oh, particular hours, particular food, Blutwurst, sausages, Russian salads, cakes, creams, and plenty of them."
"Hush, Janie; these are not things in which to interfere." "Then," quoth Jane sententiously, "I am not astonished at the dissipation of the university." And away she flounced in tears of wrath. Her mother went after her, and we laughed a little, it was impossible to help it, at the bathos of the chocolate creams; but, as Mr.
I looked at him to see if he were in earnest. He meant it. In a moment more I was leaning over the counter giving directions for a second supply. Thinking it would make no difference to such a gorgeous young sybarite as Marden, I took the liberty of ordering ninepenny creams this time. On returning to the saloon, what was my horror at finding it empty!
The gray crowd makes way for a group of musicians in brilliant caftans, and following them comes a long file of women with uncovered faces and bejewelled necks, balancing on their heads the dishes the guests have sent to the feast kouskous, sweet creams and syrups, "gazelles' horns" of sugar and almonds in delicately woven baskets, each covered with several squares of bright gauze edged with gold.
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