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Updated: May 12, 2025
There was smothered chicken, light biscuit, fresh eggs, poundcake and tea. The tablecloth and napkins were of fine linen. That they were soft and smooth the colonel noticed, but he did not observe closely enough to see that they had been carefully darned in many places.
Miss Anne Prettyman, the younger, went about frequently to tea-parties, would go, indeed, to any party to which she might be invited; and was known to have a pleasant taste for poundcake and sweetmeats. Being seen so much in the outer world, she became common, and her character did not stand so high as did that of her sister.
It is strange how fashion rules in diet as in dress. Why, the Koohinoor diamond of Victoria is not more valued than is a steady supply of poundcake by most of women and children. We know of a family who make it a boast that they, when young, had all they wanted; which either implies their mother to have been unwisely indulgent, or else the children to have been over-clamorous.
The Bishop I saw at least once when he appeared worse for wine, or something of the kind. After partaking of some refreshments in the Convent, he sent for all the nuns, and, on our appearance, gave us his blessing, and put a piece of poundcake on the shoulder of each of us, in a manner which appeared singular and foolish. There are three rooms in the Black Nunnery which I never entered.
We're as snug as bugs in a rug, and nobody in the wide world dare harm you. Hurry up and talk fast, or you and I will never get a taste of that fine poundcake Aunt Sally wants to make." Another moment of hesitation, and then came Ned's triumphant statement: "'Twasn't no ghost, anyhow." "Of course it wasn't," answered "Forty-niner," promptly agreeing, but considerably puzzled.
The receipt for this punch one which had been long stored in the culinary archives of the Merritt family, with the poundcake and other rich and toothsome compounds had often, upon entreaty, been confided to other ambitious matrons, but to no purpose.
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