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Sometimes she would place two or three sugar-plums on one number, always naming it aloud "trente-et-un," "douze-premier," "douze- après." It was the oddest game for a small thing not six years old; and there was something odd, too, in her matter-of-fact, business-like air, which amused Graham.
Soup, of course, came first, then fish, then meat stewed with potatoes and onions, then other meat with ochra and tomatoes, then boiled chicken, which is eaten with a pilaff of rice colored with saffron, then delicious sweet potatoes, yams, plantains, and vegetables of every sort, then a kind of pepper, brought, we think, from the East Indies, and intensely tropical in its taste, then a splendid roast turkey, and ham strewed with small colored sugar-plums, then well, is not that enough for one person to have eaten at a stretch, and that person accustomed to a Boston diet?
He went off to the nursery to feed Sarah on sugar-plums, and dispose the frog and banner on his sisters' beds to delight them in the morning; while Percy, coming in, declared that this had been the little boy's happiest time.
I ate a kind of small pills I had never tasted at Paris. The English and the French kept up a conversation with these sugar-plums. Our dialogue went on for days. They would toss their sugar-plums into the town; we would throw these plums back to them, especially into one bonbon box. You remember that box that fort, Corsican, do you not?" "What, the Little Gibraltar?" queried the Corsican.
I did so want to be the goodest of you all, and I thought that I'd get sugar-plums and perhaps pennies. And I thought she'd let me tell her when you was all bad. Oh, I hate her now! I don't think I care to be took out of the nursery if she's about." "You certainly are a caution, Penny," said Verena. "It is well that you have told us what your motives are.
Then the mighty treasures of sugar-plums, white and crimson and yellow, in large glass vases; and candy of all varieties; and those little cockles, or whatever they are called, much prized by children for their sweetness, and more for the mottoes which they enclose, by love-sick maids and bachelors!
He told them it was Christmas-time a time at which all men, black or white, feasted; that there were flour, sugar-plums, good things in plenty in the store, and that he would make for them such a pudding as they had never dreamed of a great pudding of which all might eat and be filled. The Blacks listened and were lost. The pudding was made and distributed.
Burleigh's toast to such doubtful compliments." "Miss Jennie, I protest, I never offered you a compliment in my life," he said, accompanying her. "In the name of the King's English, what are compliments, then?" "Mere verbal sugar-plums, sweet, cloying, and often poisonous. My expressions of honest opinion are, like Mr.
Many persons sat in sunny places by the roadsides to beg, with few to beg from, blind old men, and groups of children clamorous for coppers, but propitiated by sugar-plums. Many others were bringing offerings, candles for the altar, poultry, which were piled, a living mass, legs tied, in the corner of the church, and small sums of money, which were recorded by an ancient man in a mighty book.
We see its agents, smiling and nodding and ducking to attract attention, as gipsies make up to truant boys, holding out tales for the nursery, and pretty pictures, and gilt gingerbread, and physic concealed in jam, and sugar-plums for good children. Who can but feel shame when the religion of Ximenes, Borromeo, and Pascal, is so overlaid?
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