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Biddy lay down with her tongue poked out; she was so fat and glossy she looked like a lump of half-melted toffee. But Chinny's porcelain eyes gloomed at Reginald, and he sniffed faintly, as though the whole world were one unpleasant smell. Snip, went the scissors again. Poor little beggars; they were getting it! "And where are you going, if your mother may ask?" asked the mater.
"Let us set off for the Dripping Well as fast as we can. You must make any purchases you want when we return; I cannot let you wait now." Effie Hargreaves had already dived into the toffee shop, and issued with several paper packages in her hand; so she went on her way rejoicing that she had seized the opportunity while there was yet time.
I could blow them through the key-hole when they are small too." "Thanks," acknowledged Dam gratefully, "and if you could tie some up and a sausage and a tart or two and some bread-and-jam and some chicken and cake and toffee and things in a handkerchief, and climb on to the porch with Grumper's longest fishing-rod, you might be able to relieve the besieged garrison a lot.
"I s'll have to begin a new start of some sort," said Paul; "and you as well, I suppose." He took one of Dawes's pieces. "I dunno where," said the other. "Things have to happen," Morel said. "It's no good doing anything at least no, I don't know. Give me some toffee." The two men ate sweets, and began another game of draughts. "What made that scar on your mouth?" asked Dawes.
The boy nodded and disgorged a huge lump of toffee, whereat the toothache disappeared. "Dat's me fader," he said. "Fourt' floor front east. He ain't in, dough." "Your father!" Morris cried. "Why, the people I am coming to see they are greenhorns." "Oh, yeh," the youngster replied; "dat's me fader's uncle. He lives wid us." "All right," Morris said. "Take me up there."
'Finish him off, Bob, cried a big boy, and that I noticed especially, because I thought it unkind of him, after eating of my toffee as he had that afternoon; 'finish him off, neck and crop; he deserves it for sticking up to a man like you. But I was not so to be finished off, though feeling in my knuckles now as if it were a blueness and a sense of chilblain.
I have extracted a vast number of chocolates from automatic machines; I have obtained cigarettes, toffee, scent, and other things that I dislike by the same machinery; I have weighed myself, with sublime results; and this sense, not only of the healthiness of popular things, but of their essential antiquity and permanence, is still in possession of my mind.
It seemed that there was less likelihood of him doing this at engineering than at anything else. "And a very good engineer you'll be," Gilbert said encouragingly. "You're always messing about with the insides of things, and I can't see what good that habit would be to an ambassador, or a parson, and anyhow you can't speak French for toffee, and that's the principal thing an ambassador has to do!
"We have special saloon carriages engaged on the train, and lovely baskets of lunch, and Miss Lincoln lets us buy toffee and chocolates if there are any shops. I wonder where we shall go this year, and if it will be to the country or the seaside. Has anyone heard?" "Phyllis Chambers said she believed it was to be Moorcliffe," said Winnie. "Where's that?"
He forgot all the things he had been thinking about, and nothing would come into his head but little things for himself, like toffee, a foreign stamp album, or a clasp- knife with three blades and a corkscrew. He sat down to think better, but it was no use.
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