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There will be jam-puffs soon, and ice-cream, and fish-cakes, and you can go to China this way whenever you like." And he said: "Can't I take Hamlet with me?" And the voice answered: "Hamlet is with you already," and there, behold, was Hamlet sitting on the pink cloud with a stiff gold collar round his neck, wagging his tail.
Miss Christine's on our side, aren't you, Miss Christine? And oh, Connie, there's a pastrycook's round the corner where they make jam-puffs like they did when I was a kid " "I'll put the kettle on," Francey said, nodding to him. She passed close to Robert. She even gave him a quick, friendly touch. He could almost hear her say, "Tag, Robert!" but he would not look at her.
No one said anything, so preparations were begun. A minute piece of shade was found for Mrs. A tablecloth was laid on the sand and the provisions spread out pasties for everybody, egg-sandwiches, seed-cake, and jam-puffs and ginger beer. It looked a fine feast when it was all there, and Mrs.
Now, too, the publican gets unto himself a white sheet and suspends it at his door and proclaims that he sells Kosher rum by permission of the Chief Rabbi. Now the confectioner exchanges his "stuffed monkeys," and his bolas and his jam-puffs, and his cheese-cakes for unleavened "palavas," and worsted balls and almond cakes.
"Was I impatient?" He felt her humour flicker up like a flame in the darkness. "I suppose I was. It was the jam-puff. You hurt their feelings. And it was such a little thing." "I hate jam-puffs," he said, but humbly, because it was not the truth, and he could never explain. "Come with us, Robert." "I can't." "But you want to come?" "That's just it. I don't know why.
Of course, if I had known it was only to be lunch for one, I would not have put in so many things; and certainly not a whole bottle of papa's best claret. In fact, if I had known I was to picnic practically alone, I would not have crossed the river at all." Then she saw that Peter was in earnest, and with a sigh of regret, Sarah returned the dish of jam-puffs to the basket.
Many people despise sandwiches and milk out of beer-bottles and bananas and seed-cake. Jeremy, of course, did not. But the paper on this journey to Rafield! There was nothing in the world to touch it. Jam-puffs with strawberry jam eaten in the odour of ginger-beer and eggshells! Is it possible for life at its very best to hold more? He kept his jam-puff so long as he could, until at last Mr.
Tom and Maggie made several inroads into the kitchen, and, like other marauders, were induced to keep aloof for a time only by being allowed to carry away a sufficient load of booty. "Tom," said Maggie, as they sat on the boughs of the elder-tree, eating their jam-puffs, "shall you run away to-morrow?"
"Let us go in here" they were passing a confectioner's "and we'll have some jam-puffs." Paul went to his friend Rowlatt, who had already heard, through one of his assistants who had a friend in the Life School, of the dramatic end of the model's career. "I quite sympathize with you," Rowlatt laughed. "I've wondered how you stuck it so long. What are you going to do now?" "I'm going on the stage."
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