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They sat on big stone arches, and the topmost one was so high that it stuck up over the city walls, which were quite high enough to begin with. And there were citrons like those you chop up in fruit-cake and grapes and roses. The queen could sit in the bottomest garden, or walk up to the toppest one by a lot of stone steps.
With which comforting assurance for the morrow, the Widow Sprigg took herself out of the room, and quiet fell upon the old home. "May I help? I think I could do that. It doesn't look hard," said Katharine, wandering into the kitchen where Susanna was seeding raisins more raisins than the girl had ever seen together, save at a grocer's counter. "What are you doing it for?" "Fruit-cake.
And as to the real, hand-painted views of fruit-cake, and grapes and apples on a red table-cloth, I am one of those that can't make allowances for the fact that she only took two terms. I call to mind one picture that Miss Alvalou Ashbaker made of her pap, old "Coonrod" Ashbaker.
Jerome, hungry boy as he was, having the spicy richness of that wonderful fruit-cake in his nostrils, noted even before that the lavender scent of Miss Camilla's garments, which seemed, like a subtle fragrance of individuality and life itself, to enter his thoughts rather than his senses.
"And won't let you eat two pieces of pie " "Or one piece o' fruit-cake " "Maybe you remember now the times she's said, 'This is no little daughter of mine'?" Margaret turned sharply. "That was only because I was naughty," she pleaded, strickenly, but she knew in her soul it wasn't "only because." She knew it was because. The terror within her was growing more terrible every moment.
So saying, he took from under his cloak of gold cloth, a great basket of silver filagree work, in which were cream-chocolates, and burnt almonds, and sponge-cake, and lady's fingers, and mixtures, and gingernuts, and hoar-hound candy, and gum-drops, and fruit-cake, and cream candy, and mintstick, and pound-cake, and rock candy, and butter taffy, and many other confections, amounting in all to about two hundred and twenty pounds.
"What are you talking about?" cried Annie, indignantly; for she thought she saw a look of surprise and contempt on Flossy's face, and fancied that Flossy despised her because she had a weakness for fruit-cake. "I wonder if you take me for a pig, Susy Parlin! I heard what your mother said about that cake!
Aunty Patton was a widow, with very slender means; and boarded with a married daughter, who had a large family of children, but very little to support them on. Poor Aunty! she fared rather poorly at home, and did so seem to enjoy everything. She was particularly fond of fruit-cake; and whenever she came, mamma took particular pains that this should be one of the appliances of the tea-table.
It was Friday evening, and supper at the perfect boarding house had advanced as far as the stewed prunes and fruit-cake stage. Keturah, who was carefully dealing out the prunes, exactly four to each saucer, stopped short, spoon in air, and gazed at Miss Dawes. "You you want to WHAT?" she asked. "I want to borrow your husband.
All of which, of course, served but as provocation to further flippancy, and, for days later, the lady was referred to as his own sweetest soda biscuit, his bun, his precious fruit-cake, and so on, until a bakery's terms were so exhausted. All this was, no doubt, silliness. The woman, in her way, was not less inexcusable than the man.
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