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Updated: May 12, 2025
"Not alone, Eunice Maitland, not alone!" cried the old housekeeper, who wouldn't have missed this business if all the jumbles she had made had burned themselves to a crisp. Fortunately, they were out of the way, and though she had mixed dough for raisin-cake she hadn't yet put in "the lightenin'." "If we start to oncet there ain't nothin' to harm, an' the childern's so busy they'll never notice.
Heinzelmann waited with unmoved official countenance for the signal to play on, for he was hardened against M. Knaak's effects. Then the quadrille was continued. And then there was an intermission. The second-girl came clinking through the door with a tea-tray of wine-jelly in glasses, and the cook followed in her wake with a cargo of raisin-cake.
That's what you've got to think on; not your new hat nor your white pique. How'd I know? Raisin-cake in it, ain't there?" Rosa bent suddenly forward, and placed the package in Dilly's lap. In spite of the bright daylight all about her, she was frightened; if a cloud had swept over, she must have screamed. "I don't know how you found it out," she whispered, "but 'tis raisin-cake. Mother sent it.
'Thank you, baker, and a merry Christmas to you, and every one of them goes away with the present of a raisin-cake, or a horse ginger-cake, if they like that better. All this for the good of the trade, of course. Confound the trade, I'm tired of trade. Is there no good in this world, but the good of the trade?
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