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Her sister's cool reception, so different from what she had anticipated, had stung her heart; and sitting down near the door, she burst into a passionate fit of tears. Jenny, who was really distressed, occasionally pressed her hand in token of sympathy, at the same time offering her cloves, peanuts and sugar-plums.
Gilfil called it his wonderful pocket, because, as he delighted to tell the 'young shavers' and 'two-shoes' so he called all little boys and girls whenever he put pennies into it, they turned into sugar-plums or gingerbread, or some other nice thing.
In the days of yore children were not all such clever, good, sensible people as they are now. Lessons were then considered rather a plague, sugar-plums were still in demand, holidays continued yet in fashion, and toys were not then made to teach mathematics, nor story-books to give instruction in chemistry and navigation.
She had not seemed to-day like the shallow girl who had hitherto accepted of his more innocent compliments as if they were sugar-plums, and merely raised her finger in mock warning at such as contained a spice of wickedness and boldness. There seemed a current of thought in her mind which he could not fathom, and whether it were carrying her away or toward him he was not sure.
Her father was called "Madsen," and that name, she knew, ended in "sen;" so she said, as proudly as she could, "But my father can buy hundreds of rix dollars' worth of sugar-plums, and think nothing of it. Can your father do that?" "That's all very well," said the little daughter of a popular journalist; "but my father can put both of your fathers and all 'fathers' into the newspaper.
"You heard what he said about what he intended to do the warning, as he called it." Thornton looked at his grandson serenely and with a glint of humor in his eyes. "You don't have any idea, do you, that Vard Waymouth is going to play politics with sugar-plums instead of with the chips he finds on the table? Get your wisdom teeth cut, young chap.
At last, a little of that white face showed; the lips, no longer craving for sugar-plums, murmured: "It's you he he really loves all the time. And you don't love him that's what's so funny and and I can't understand it. Oh, Mrs. Fiorsen, if I could see him just see him! He told me never to come again; and I haven't dared.
"That's a good child; well then, I have an idea that my two nieces are followed by some of the gay cavaliers, who saw them at Madrid, and I wish you to find out if it is true. Do you understand?" "Oh, yes, madam," replied I; "I do perfectly." "Well then, do you watch, and Pedro, here are two reals for you, to buy sugar-plums." Thus did I enter in one day into the real occupation of a page.
Well then, I have an idea that my two nieces are followed by some of the gay cavaliers, who saw them at Madrid, and I wish you to find out if it is true. Do you understand?" "Oh, yes, madam," replied I; "I do perfectly." "Well then, do you watch, and Pedro, here are two reals for you, to buy sugar-plums." Thus did I enter in one day into the real occupation of a page.
"And I am at one with you," continued Lady Esmondet, "for it means a full hand, a full purse, without which one might as well be extinct; for one could not pay Society's tolls; yes, the yellow sovereign is all powerful; one may do as one pleases if one fills Grundy's mouth with sugar-plums; she will then shut her eyes and see with ours, for have we not paid our tribute-money?
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