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"White as a frosted plum-cake, by jingo!" said he, when he got to the street. Maida gamboled and whisked among the snow, and his master strode across to Young Street, and through it to 1 North Charlotte Street, to the house of his dear friend, Mrs. William Keith, of Corstorphine Hill; niece of Mrs.
The last trace of the mimic battle had been cleared away, and now where tin cavalry had ridden boldly to their fate, and lead guards had died but not surrendered, nothing was to be seen but peaceful plum-cake, or bread and butter cut in thin and appetizing slices. "I'm sorry you weren't able to make a longer stay," said Aunt Mabel, as she poured out the tea.
In place of the usual desks and forms, a long table ran down the room, round which some fifty or sixty urchins sat, regaling themselves with what was left of a vast spread of plum-cake, buns, and ginger-beer. How these banquets were provided was always a mystery to outsiders.
Jemmy Welch was a Guinea-pig who had just made a particularly good shot at the speaker's nose with a piece of plum-cake. I shall go on speaking just as long as I choose, Bramble, so now! Your umpire was a cheat they always are! We beat you hollow, didn't we, Stee Greenfield?" "Yes, rather!" shouted Stephen, snatching a piece of cake away from a Tadpole and shying it to a Guinea-pig.
The lady grasped my hand with great cordiality. "You men have monopolized the Colonel long enough," she began with a large coquetry that I found not unpleasing, and firmly grasping my arm she led me off in the direction of the refreshment pavilion, where I was playfully let to know that I should purchase her bits of refreshment, coffee, plum-cake, an ice, things of that sort.
"O the nasty plum-cake! I wish you had not given me any, mamma." "You once thought the plum-cake nice, and you would not be contented with the small portion I knew to be sufficient and safe for you." "O my head! I think it is very cruel, mamma, that you do not pity me."
"I don't know if that would be quite honest," said Margaret, doubtfully. "A pious fraud a drawing-room comedy," said Barton; "have we rehearsed it enough?" "Now, this is quite perfect," said Barton, when he had been accommodated with a large piece of plum-cake. "This is the very kind of cake which we specially prohibit our patients to touch; and so near dinner-time, too!
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.
'Come, fetch out the plum-cake, old man! the Unicorn went on, turning from her to the King. 'None of your brown bread for me! 'Certainly certainly! the King muttered, and beckoned to Haigha. 'Open the bag! he whispered. 'Quick! Not that one that's full of hay! Haigha took a large cake out of the bag, and gave it to Alice to hold, while he got out a dish and carving-knife.
Likewise the ambassador of the hero went to claim the promise of the Church to be in attendance on a certain spot, on a certain day, and there hear oath of eternal fealty, and gird him about with all its forces: which the Church, receiving a wink from the Law, obsequiously engaged to do, for less than the price of a plum-cake. Meantime, while craftsmen and skilled women, directed by Mrs.
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