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Irving, in the part of Juba, was called a little sooner than he expected, and came on the boards with his mouth full of honey-cake. Speech was out of the question vox haesit there was a momentary deadlock in his throat. The audience began to laugh, but the prince was not to be counted out.

We will pay for the straw with a rollicking waltz Ha ha!" The gypsey musician caught his comrade by the arm and pulled her down on the straw beside him. "Which pocket, Velasco? Oh, I feel the honey-cake bulging! Give it to me." "No take it yourself!" "Your pocket is so deep; it is like diving into a pool." "Not so deep as your eyes, Kaya. You thief!

The peasant-girls twirled and twisted both the work-boxes and themselves many a time before the bargain was completed. The air was heavy with all kinds of odors, and was spiced with the fragrance of honey-cake. Here acquaintances met each other-some peasant-maidens, perhaps, who had been born in the same village, but since then had been separated.

When you look like that and come so close, I am frightened! Don't tease me any more! The bread is hard like a nut; see, I will crack it between my teeth. Where is the honey-cake, Velasco? Give me a piece." "Do you care for me, Kaya? Look me in the eyes and tell me."

Instead, on encountering Gapka, he at once began to scold her for loitering about without any occupation, though she was carrying groats to the kitchen; flung a stick at a cock which came upon the balcony for his customary treat; and when the dirty little boy, in his little torn blouse, ran up to him and shouted: "Papa, papa! give me a honey-cake," he threatened him and stamped at him so fiercely that the frightened child fled, God knows whither.

My father distinctly remembers that she wept on the way to the heder; partly, I suppose, from joy at starting her son on a holy life, and partly from sadness at being too poor to set forth the wine and honey-cake proper to the occasion. For Grandma Rachel, schooled though she was to pious contentment, probably had her moments of human pettiness like the rest of us.

"If you are quiet, I'll give you a honey-cake by-and- bye, and let you play with the young chickens." The child was quiet, and a soft smile of delight and hope sparkled in his pretty eyes.

On her way home she usually bought a slice of honey-cake at the baker's. It was her Sunday treat. Sometimes there was an almond in her slice, sometimes not. It made a great difference. If there was an almond it was like carrying home a tiny present a surprise something that might very well not have been there.

Now he understood why the man had a bitter almond in his breast he himself felt the bitterness of it; and Joanna, who was always so gentle and kind, was typified by the honey-cake. The strap of his knapsack seemed so tight across his chest that he could scarcely breathe; he loosened it, but was not relieved.

"Steal me a little bread, Velasco, I am hungry." "Come back to your nest in the straw, Kaya; put your fingers in my pocket and steal for yourself. I bought a loaf with a couple of copecks, and some honey-cake. At sun-down, when the peasants come for their vodka, there will be a dance. They have never danced to a Stradivarius before; but they won't know the difference, Kaya, not they!