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Men detest bazaars; but if he does, we must make him buy far more than that," said Elsie firmly. "If we can't sell that veil-case, we will pretend it is for ties, and that no gentleman's wardrobe is complete without it. And we'll raise all the prices whenever he comes near!" "I don't suppose he'll eat toffee, but he must hand round the tea and make himself useful.
Six-pence a box." "Got any holders?" "Holders? Don't ask. Haven't seen one this year." "Got any toffee ?" "Cough-drops two-pence an ounce nothing else left." "Give me four ounces." He watched her weighing them in the little brass scales. "You've not got much of a Christmas show," he said. "Don't talk about Christmas, as far as sweets is concerned.
His hair is closely shaved except for one upstanding tuft which is left to pull him up to heaven with; and his face looks nothing but two great twinkling eyes. He squats beside me nearly all day, and eagerly eats anything I give him, like a little puppy dog. Toffee and fancy biscuits, both of which I possess in abundance, are his favourites.
"Hounds are gaining!" cried the next we passed a young urchin sitting on a bank and eating toffee. And now there met us not single spectators only, but groups, who cheered loudly, backing, some the hares and some the hounds, till we hardly knew where we were. Some even began to run along with us, at a respectful distance, in order to be "in at the death."
She was feeling in her pocket for something. "The beach," I babbled. "See what I've brought for you, baby," she said. And, by George, don't you know, she held up in front of the kid's bulging eyes a chunk of toffee about the size of the Automobile Club. That finished it. We had just been having a long rehearsal, and the kid was all worked up in his part. He got it right first time.
One, a fair-haired girl of about the same age as herself, cried persistently and unrestrainedly, burying her face in the window curtain, and refusing all comfort, though her companions pressed chocolates, caramels, mint rock, jujubes, and walnut toffee upon her with well-meant sympathy. "Oh, do stop, Avis! You make the place quite damp. No one would think it was your fourth term.
These things, strange to say, being to little Indian children very much what chocolate creams and toffee are to English ones. So far all had gone well, and now there only remained one more salute to be made. But little Adam, who was Head-nurse's own son, and who had hitherto been Baby Akbar's playmate, refused absolutely to do as he was bid.
You're young; you're clever; you've had a swell education; you come of gentlefolk my father kept a small hardware shop in Leicester you have" the smitten and generally inarticulate man hesitated "well, you have extraordinary personal beauty; you have charm; you could do anything you like in the world, save act and you can't act for toffee. Why the blazes do you stick to it?"
"When I am grown up," said Denis, "I mean to be the same church as Aunt Cissy." "And what may that be?" inquired the Canon. Denis was silent and looked perplexed; but some time afterwards, when we were talking of other things, he called out, with the joy of one who has captured that elusive thing, a definition: "In Aunt Cissy's church they climb trees and make toffee on Sundays."
Tapple's small grocery department, and feigned to be absorbed in an admiring survey of peppermint balls and toffee.
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