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Updated: May 19, 2025
From early morning on, tied up in a voluminous apron, she was cooking in the kitchen, very hot and floury and preoccupied, drawing grating shelves out of the oven, greasing tins and patty-pans, dredging flour. The click-clack of egg-beating resounded continuously; and mountains of sponge-cakes of all shapes and sizes rose under her hands.
Parlin heard nothing, for the din of the egg-beating drowned both the shrill little voices. A sudden idea came to Jennie. Whose money was this? Mrs. Parlin's? No; hadn't Mrs. Parlin looked over the rags once, and said the children might have what was left? "'You are welcome to all the treasures you can find; that was what she said," repeated Jennie to herself.
If you're going in the sitting-room, tell Ralph to come; he said he'd beat the eggs, if I'd make a puff-cake." So Olive went into the sitting-room, and sent Ralph out to the feminine employment of egg-beating, then she stood by the window and looked absently out at the shadowy yard.
Nothing more was said on this subject. A little picnic had been planned for the afternoon, and they went briskly about making preparations for it, as soon as they got back to Mrs. Camp's little green house. While they worked they discussed Amelia. "If she hadn't gone with her mother we'd have taken her to the picnic with us," the Talented One said, over her egg-beating.
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