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Updated: May 2, 2025
A great meal they ate, the Corporal attacking his potato-cake and cream as heartily as Dick himself; and when all the old stories had been related for the fiftieth time, old Sally produced the greatest treasure that she owned, a little snuff-box mounted in silver, which had been made from the horn of an ox that had been roasted whole at the great election, when old Squire Bracefort had stood at the head of the poll.
She was kneading flour and water for a potato-cake. Her potato- cakes were the joy of the household. "My paper has stopped!" said Chirac. "Oh!" she added thoughtfully, but not looking at him. "That is no reason why you should leave." "Yes," he said. "This place is beyond my means. I do not need to tell you that in ceasing to appear the paper has omitted to pay its debts.
For years I had never a clue: and then, by Sheba Farm, in a forsaken angle of the coast, surprised the secret. Sheba Farm stands high above Ruan sands, over which its windows flame at sunset. And I sat in the farm kitchen drinking cider and eating potato-cake, while the farmer's wife, Mrs. Bolverson, obligingly attended to my coat, which had just been soaked by a thunder-shower.
There was a fragment of bread, a morsel of cold potato-cake, and the bone of a leg of kid. "And is that all?" said he. But as he spoke he fleshed his teeth against the bone as a dog would have done. "It is the best I have," she said; "I wish it were better, and you should have had it without violence, as you have suffered so long from hunger." "Bah! Better; yes!
They eagerly devoured the brown bread and potato-cake which the man had brought, and let him and Walter chafe a little life into their shivering-bodies.
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