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He fancied he could see them as they sat in the house this moment, not dreaming he was anywhere near. One on each side of the fireplace; his mother wearing her black dress and purple shawl: a ball of yarn and perhaps a tea-cake in her lap; some knitting on her needles; she knit, she never mended.
'No, said Hazel, 'the General seems to get most of that. All Clarence said was: 'I'll trouble one of you girls for the tea-cake. 'I don't think it's fair that the poor army should "rough," as you call it, while you stuff, Clarence, said Hazel, indignantly. 'Mustn't they come in to tea, mother? It is such nonsense! 'Yes, dear, run and call them in, said Mrs. Jolliffe.
There was a pause, during which Miss Palliser gazed thoughtfully at her friend. "What have you been doing to yourself? You look most awfully tired." "I've been sitting up rather late the last few nights, cataloguing." "What on earth did you do that for?" "Because I want to finish by the twenty-seventh." There was a pause while Miss Palliser ate tea-cake. "Is Horace coming down before you go?"
Perhaps, thought Mrs. Bell, he will say nothing about it. In such case, however, would it not be her duty to say something? Poor mother! She trembled nearly as much as Susan. It was dark when the fatal knock came at the door. The tea-things were already laid, and the tea-cake was already baked; for it would at any rate be necessary to give Mr. Dunn his tea.
She gazed meditatively at the cold remains of her tea-cake. "Let me see," she said, suddenly; "do you happen to remember if the first review came out in an important paper?" "Yes the 'Radiator." "That's it! I thought so. Then the others simply followed suit: they often do if a big paper sets the pace. Saves a lot of trouble. Now if you could only have got the 'Radiator' to denounce you "
It was like going to church an acceptance of that "general will," which according to the philosophers, is the guardian of all religion and all morality. The Rector too, who was now handing the tea-cake, believed in fashion ecclesiastical fashion. Like his wife, he was gentle and ineffective.
One leaf of the folding doors opened and my uncle appeared. "Hullo, George! Come along at last? Gossome tea-cake, Susan?" "Thought it over George?" he said abruptly. "Yes," said I. "Coming in?" I paused for a last moment and nodded yes. "Ah!" he cried. "Why couldn't you say that a week ago?" "I've had false ideas about the world," I said. "Oh! they don't matter now!
"Well, they won't starve," said Aunt Winifred, with a sniff, applying for another piece of tea-cake. "It's no good, Marcia, your trying to stir us up. The Fallodens are not beloved. Nobody will break their hearts except of course we shall all be sorry for Lady Laura and the children. And it will be horrid to have new people at Flood."
They seemed to have taken up that position, as far apart as the seat would permit, so that they need not look at each other too much; and they were eating and drinking rather than talking Soames with his air of despising the tea-cake as it disappeared, Jolyon of finding himself slightly amusing.
We preferred both, and we sat down in that pleasant parlor-kitchen, and listened, till the tea-cake came out of the oven and was split open and buttered smoking hot, to a flow of delightful and instructive talk. For our refection we paid sixpence each, but for our edification we are still, and hope ever to be, in debt.
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