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Then arose the guest and took up the child from the floor, who kicked and screamed, and craved her mother as her broken speech might; but the alien spake softly to her, and said: Hush, dear one, and be good, and we will go and find her; and she gave her therewith a sugar-plum from out of her scrip. Then she came out of doors, and spake sweetly to the little one: See now this pretty way-beast.
He was a tall, dark young man with huge hands, and one could see from his face that he had a bass voice, and, in fact, he had a voice that seemed to come out of a barrel 'boom, boom, boom! And she was not so young, about thirty, but she, too, was tall, well-made, with black eyebrows and red cheeks in fact, she was a regular sugar-plum, and so sprightly, so noisy; she was always singing Little Russian songs and laughing.
"Count Rosek says the world is waiting for me " She paused with a sugar-plum halfway to her lips, and added doubtfully: "Do you think that's true?" Gyp answered with a soft: "I hope so." "He says I'm something new. It would be nice to think that. He has great taste; so has Mr. Fiorsen, hasn't he?"
The poor luckless nosegay or sugar-plum boys look upon us as their best friends, and follow our carriages with importunate pertinacity. Fancy dresses of any kind are few. There are one or two very young men English, I suspect, dressed as Turks, or Greeks, or pirates, after Highbury Barn traditions, looking cold and uncomfortable. Half a dozen tumble-down carriages represent the Roman element.
Lennox, I have set my heart on something, which only your consent and acquiescence will secure to me. I am about to ask for a mammoth sugar-plum that has dangled temptingly before my eyes for nearly a year, and I shall enjoy it the more if you bestow it graciously. Can you be generous and indulge my selfish whim?"
In thus, however, we were most grievously disappointed; for the balls frequently bounced over the wall, the players, not being able to throw them with the precision of Spartan children, sometimes struck their comrades, perhaps, in the eye: if we could succeed in quieting the sufferer, by a kiss and a sugar-plum, the ear was as immediately afterwards saluted with the cry of, "O, my chin, my chin," from some hapless wight having been star-gazing, and another, anxious for as many strokes as possible, mistaking that part for the bottom of his shuttlecock; while this would be followed by, "O, my leg," from the untoward movement of a stick or a barrow.
It is described at full length in Hudibras. "I hope to see you ride up Holborn next," said Dame Ursley, provoked out of all her holiday and sugar-plum expressions, "with a nosegay at your breast, and a parson at your elbow!"
"Without thee, it is pain to live, But with thee, it were sweet to die." Poor Mr. Freely! her father would very likely object she felt sure he would, for he always called Mr. Freely "that sugar-plum fellow." Oh, it was very cruel, when true love was crossed in that way, and all because Mr.
I was myself flogged fifteen times in one forenoon over the conjugation of a verb. Punish if you will, but be kind too, and let the sugar-plum go with the rod. This is not the language of a demagogue or a fanatic; it is the wise thought of a tender, human-hearted man. At seventeen, he left school for the University at Erfurt. It was then no shame for a poor scholar to maintain himself by alms.
If she does not take to so mature a bridegroom, she loses thirty only thirty of the L200,000 settled upon her, which goes to me as a sugar-plum after the nauseous draught of the young lady's 'No. Now, you know all. His widow, really an exemplary young woman, has a jointure of L1500 a year, and the villa. It is not much, but she is contented."
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