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Updated: June 26, 2025
At that time those cakes seemed to me to be absolutely the most tempting and desirable things that I had ever seen; and I then and there resolved that, if I ever got free, the height of my ambition would be reached if I could get to the point where I could secure and eat ginger-cakes in the way that I saw those ladies doing.
In short, every imaginable topic of discussion, in order or out of order, was lugged in to kill time. Meanwhile the supply of ham at the eating-counter below-stairs was exhausted, the oysters were soon after minus, and those who had brought no lunch had to mumble ginger-cakes.
I remember that at one time I saw two of my young mistresses and some lady visitors eating ginger-cakes, in the yard.
Their touch is so gentle, and their speech is so soft, and they have no slang of the camp, and yet they are such diablotins to fight and eat steel, and die laughing, all so quiet and nonchalant. Give me the aristocrats the real thing, you know. Not the ginger-cakes, just gilt, that are ashamed of being honest bread but the old blood like Bel-a-faire-peur."
And finally, that two-shilling ginger-cakes were, in the very nature of things, designed for large families; and it was the part of wisdom for small families to fix their affections on something else, for she couldna and wouldna tak' it in hand to cut a rare and expensive article for a small customer. The torrent of logic was over, and I said humbly that I would take the whole loaf.
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