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Updated: May 22, 2025
A buzz of exclamations from the crowd a closing in upon her a whirl of faces, and counter, and trays, and gas stove. Jennie dropped with a crash, the warm scone still grasped in her fingers. Just before the ambulance came it was the blonde lady of the impossible gelatines who caught the murmur that came from Jennie's white lips. The blonde lady bent her head closer. Closer still.
"If a fellow can't get hungry in the bush," said Wally, holding out his hand for his fifth scone, "then he doesn't deserve ever to get hungry at all!" To which Jim replied, "Don't worry, old man that's a fate that's never likely to overtake you!" Wally, whose hunger was of a generally prevailing kind, which usually afflicted him most in school hours, subsided meekly into his tea-cup.
"I half thought Maryon Rooke might be here by now," remarked Nan, selecting a scone from the golden-brown pyramid on the plate and carefully avoiding Penelope's eyes. "He said he might look in some time this afternoon." Penelope held the teapot arrested in mid-air. "How condescending of him!" she commented drily. "If he comes then exit Penelope."
This and the method of it is very well set forth in the case of Scone, a place of great historical interest, where the ancient kings of Scotland had been crowned.
Gowrie shouted ‘Horses! horses!’ but Cranstoun said ‘Your horse is at Scone,’ some two miles off, on the further side of the Tay. Here Lennox asked the porter, Christie, if the King had gone. The porter said he was certain that the King had not left the house. The porter corroborated all this at the trial, and quoted his own speech about the key, as it was given by Lindores.
The good Abbot of Scone was invited from his hermitage; and when he heard from the embassadors sent to him, that the brave young warrior whom he had entertained was the resistless Wallace, he no longer thought of the distant and supine Bruce, but centered every wish for his country in the authority of her deliverer.
Crowned at Scone. Proclaimed king at Carlisle. The battle of Worcester. Bravery of Charles. Disloyalty of the Scottish cavalry. The Royalists defeated. The King's flight. Seeks refuge in Boscobel Wood. The faithful Pendrells. Striving to cross the Severn. Hiding in an oak tree. Sheltered by Master Lane. Sets out with Mistress Lane. Perilous escapes. On the road. The king is recognised.
The seal of the regency was broken: Edward handed over the seisin of Scotland to John Balliol, who three days later took the oath of fealty as King of Scots, promising that he would perform all the service due to Edward from his kingdom, Balliol hurried to his kingdom, and was crowned at Scone on St. Andrew's day.
If he dropped a halfpenny on the counter he was contented with one scone, but if he had given a penny he expected two, and would wait for the second, after he had eaten the first, until he got it. That he knew exactly when he was entitled to one scone only, and when he ought to get two, is certain, for I tried him often.
The dark-browed woman was breaking off morsels from a wheaten scone that was lying in her lap, and saying as she did so: "Presently we will have a cup of tea, and then keep together as far as Christopol." In response the young fellow edged nearer to her, and thoughtfully eyed the large hands which, though inured to hard work, could also be very gentle. "I have been trodden upon," he said.
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