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Here and there around the base of the whipped cream place a marron glace. This will serve fifteen persons. Mold vanilla ice cream with the ordinary pyramid ice cream spoon, roll them quickly in grated macaroons, and serve on a paper mat. 1/2 cupful of rice 1 quart of cream 1 pint of milk 2 teaspoonfuls of vanilla extract or 1/2 vanilla bean 1/2 pound of sugar Yolks of six eggs
"Then you have missed your marron glace?" answered Leo, turning from the contemplation of a new picture which Mr. Cutting had recently added to his collection. "Of course. Do not all of us sooner or later? Where is yours?
He who can skilfully exhibit the latter, is almost certain to win the heart of the former. Where the chocolate fails, however, the marron glacé is an infallible specific. I recommend that we lay in a liberal supply of both weapons." "Carried by acclamation," said Müller. "We can buy them on our way, in the Rue Vivienne. A capital shop; but one that I never patronize they give no credit."
'No, thanks, said he, shutting his eyes. 'I beg your pardon, I'm sure; Geraldine turned to her visitors and extended the box. 'Won't you have a marron glacé? And the visitors gazed at each other in startled, affrighted silence. 'Has Henry eaten some? Mrs. Knight asked, shaken. 'He had one or two before tea, Geraldine answered. 'Why? 'I knew he was going to be ill! said Aunt Annie.
At the hour when the two strangers were arriving, a party of four persons were being entertained in the drawing-room of La Verberie: the cure of Marsac, a young priest of five-and-twenty, who, at Madame Sechard's request, had become tutor to her little boy Lucien; the country doctor, Monsieur Marron; the Maire of the commune; and an old colonel, who grew roses on a plot of land opposite to La Verberie on the other side of the road.
A shiver ran through the meagre little attorney when he heard those words. Meanwhile Eve beheld her father-in-law enter with the Abbe Marron, who had let fall a word which unfolded the whole tragedy. "Here is our cure, Mme. Sechard," the old man said, addressing his daughter-in-law, "and pretty tales about your brother he has to tell us, no doubt!"
Some went straight and some did not; but before the afternoon ended, Katy had quite a lapful of confections and trifles, roses, sugared almonds, a satin casket, a silvered box in the shape of a horseshoe, a tiny cage with orange blossoms for birds on the perches, a minute gondola with a marron glacee by way of passenger, and, prettiest of all, a little ivory harp strung with enamelled violets instead of wires.
"Alma, too intemperate and prolonged diet of sweets has ruined your digestion; has rendered you an ethical dyspeptic. A surfeit of sugar betrays itself in fermentation, and you have reached the stage of moral acidulation." "Ah, don't drift into homiletics! I see your marron grows hard by the vineyard where sour grapes flourish.
Outside the circle of light in which she sat, the large dining-room looked solemn and shadowy. The cook, placed upon her mettle, served a delicious repast a luscious tenderloin broiled a point. The wine tasted good; the marron glace seemed to be just what she wanted. It was so pleasant, too, to dine in a comfortable peignoir.
And their importance, communicated to her, resulted in a struggle between the desire to preserve her skin from ruin and the seductions of marron paste and maple chocolates. Now, with an uncomfortable sense of impending disaster, she would hastily consume one or the other; again, supported by a beginning self-imposed inflexibility, she would turn steadily away from temptation.
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