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Updated: June 26, 2025
It will easily be understood that after my arrival at my new home, I waited anxiously for the appearance of the mouse; but it will hardly be credited by any one who knows me, or who knew my grandmother, that I saw it and let it escape me. It was seated on the sugar-basin, just as the Captain had described it. The torn ear, the jerking tail, the bright eyes all were there.
Only two have broken since oh yes, Hannah, the girl who came after Emily, chipped off the handle of the sugar-basin and broke a bit out of the slop-bowl." "Where did Father stand?" Meg asked. She was peopling the room with wedding guests; the ham and the chops, the toast and eggs and dishes of fruit, had turned to a great white towered cake with silver leaves.
Nathaniel Pipkin's retiring disposition, nervous temperament, and most particularly diminutive income, should from this day forth, have dared to aspire to the hand and heart of the only daughter of the fiery old Lobbs of old Lobbs, the great saddler, who could have bought up the whole village at one stroke of his pen, and never felt the outlay old Lobbs, who was well known to have heaps of money, invested in the bank at the nearest market town who was reported to have countless and inexhaustible treasures hoarded up in the little iron safe with the big keyhole, over the chimney-piece in the back parlour and who, it was well known, on festive occasions garnished his board with a real silver teapot, cream-ewer, and sugar-basin, which he was wont, in the pride of his heart, to boast should be his daughter's property when she found a man to her mind.
The fly wanders round beneath the sugar-basin, his small mind absorbed in a somewhat justifiable surprise, and then the child loses all interest in him. Thus the gods with men. Cartoner was beginning to experience this numb surprise. His life, set down as a series of events, would have made what the world considers good reading nowadays.
A rainy day, during which the digging of the tank could not be proceeded with, gave occasion for some observations on the actions of a number of ants, which had made a way into his bedroom, climbed upon a table on which some sugar usually stood, and taken possession of the sugar-basin.
This terrible remonstrance was uttered by Madame Grandet as she beheld her daughter armed with an old Sevres sugar-basin which Grandet had brought home from the chateau of Froidfond. "And where will you get the sugar? Are you crazy?" "Mamma, Nanon can buy some sugar as well as the candle." "But your father?" "Surely his nephew ought not to go without a glass of eau sucree?
My mother then ran back to the table, caught up the sugar-basin and carried it upstairs, singing as she went, at the highest pitch of her voice: "What are little girls made of, made of Sugar and spice, and all that's nice; And that's what girls are made of!" While my mother was away, little Virginia poured her cup of tea, which was already sweetened, into the can.
You see I'm trying to beat a coper that's close ahead of us just now. The Sunbeam is pretty swift on her heels, an' if the breeze holds ha! you've got it, sir?" He certainly had got it, in his lap where neither cup, saucer, nor tea should be. "You are right, skipper, and if your ready hands had not prevented it I should have got the teapot and sugar-basin also. But no matter.
I love them. I have a tiny one, whom I know well and am ever so fond of. I caught her one day in the sugar-basin, the little thief! "'And didn't you kill her, miss? asked the man. "'Why, no! she said. 'I never thought of such a thing! I let her run away to her hole and now, every evening, I put a lump of sugar outside the hole for her.
Ailie patted her favourite on the cheek and told it to go away, adding, that it was a dear pet whereupon that small monkey retired modestly to a corner near the sideboard. It chanced to be the corner nearest to the sugar-basin, which had been left out by accident; but Jacko didn't know that, of course at least, if he did, he did not say so.
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