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There was no other sort of efficiency about her. Yet everybody was kind to Priscilla; everybody loved her and laughed at her to her face, and did not laugh behind her back; everybody would have given her half of his last crust, or the bigger share of his plum-cake.
Let who will eat plum-cake and swill hot coffee heartburn and other troubles are often the result of this kind of refreshment. A little toddy doesn't hurt anybody. The consumption of alcohol on the Fram's third voyage was as follows: One dram and fifteen drops at dinner on Wednesdays and Sundays, and a glass of toddy on Saturday evenings. On holidays there was an additional allowance.
"There's no use your following me around this way. You sha'n't be dreamed to-night." "I think you might let me go into her dream with you," said the pretty dream, sorrowfully. "She didn't know she oughtn't to eat the plum-cake." "Well, you sha'n't," said the ugly dream. "She ain't going to have any dream but me, and I'm going to look just as ugly as I can.
"Now scamper, every one of you," said aunt Madge, "for I must go right to cooking. Let's see, you shall have some cunning little sandwiches, some hard-boiled eggs; and what else can you think of, Louise?" "Stop a minute," said aunt Louise, drawing on a long face, "I hope Susy and Prudy " "Tarts and plum-cake!" cried Susy and Grace. "Oranges, dates, and figs!" said Horace.
Her husband shakes his head; and further adds, that they had seed-cake instead of plum-cake, and that it was all white wine. ‘All white wine!’ exclaims his wife. ‘Nothing but sherry and madeira,’ says the husband. ‘What! no port?’ ‘Not a drop.’ No port, no plums, and no feathers! ‘You will recollect, my dear,’ says the formal lady, in a voice of stately reproof, ‘that when we first met this poor man who is now dead and gone, and he took that very strange course of addressing me at dinner without being previously introduced, I ventured to express my opinion that the family were quite ignorant of etiquette, and very imperfectly acquainted with the decencies of life.
With what naive grace and bashful coquetry she served the tea, going from one table to another, cup in hand, followed by the one-armed captain with silver epaulets, carrying the plum-cake! In order to see her again, M. Violette paid the captain visit after visit.
I've just been thinking of those days of my fiercely careless childhood when my soul used to float out to placid happiness on one piece of plum-cake only even then, alas, it floated out like a polar bear on its iceberg, for as that plum-cake vanished my peace of mind went with it, madly as I clung to the last crumb.
It's a sort of a prize note, don't you see; and one such, as in the old spelling-book story, the good boy received a plum-cake for writing. Perhaps you weren't educated on the old spelling-book, J. J.? My good old father taught me to read out of his I say, I think it was a shame to keep the old boy waiting whilst I have been giving an audience to this young lady.
The little party was soon comfortably seated at the social meal, when Master George's health was pledged in the cup "that cheers but not inebriates;" and he regaled himself on choice plum-cake made by the dear old lady herself for that special occasion, taking care, every now and then, to break off a bit and throw it to Boxa, who sat by his side, wagging her tail, in evident expectation of tit-bits.
Owen looked absently at me, in greater bewilderment than ever opened his eyes in perplexed consideration repeated to himself slowly the word "tastes" and then helped me with this suggestion: "Hadn't we better begin, Griffith, by getting her a plum-cake?" "My dear Owen," I remonstrated, "it is a grown young woman who is coming to see us, not a little girl from school."
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