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Updated: June 25, 2025
Well, it was better to be prepared and know the worst. "Bultitude says, just like a great awkward schoolboy, y'know, 'What's your name? How d'ye do? Have some hardbake, it's just done? Fancy finding a man in his position cooking toffee in the middle of the day, and offering it to a perfect stranger!" "Softening of the brain must be," said the other. "I fear so.
The girl was still holding up the toffee, and the kid did what Jimmy Pinkerton would have called "business of outstretched hands" towards it. "Kiss Fweddie!" he shrieked. "What does this mean?" said the girl, turning to me. "You'd better give it to him, don't you know," I said. "He'll go on till you do." She gave the kid his toffee, and he subsided.
On the afternoon of Christmas Day the children carried a small parcel of home-made gifts and almond toffee to Una; then stayed with her to sing some Christmas hymns and carols, and to tell her over again that wonderful old story of the first Christmas morning so many years ago.
The carriage door was shut back, and they began to move over the green. The open part of it was covered with booths, barrows, stands, and show-tents. There were cheap jacks with shoddy watches, phrenologists with two chairs, fat women, dwarfs, wandering minstrels, itinerant hawkers of toffee in tin hat-boxes, and other shiny and slimy creatures with the air and grease of the towns.
She stood staring at Bridgie with horrified eyes. "Bridgie, how could you? What do you mean by it? What did you bring, and how was it made up?" "A chicken, and pies, and apples, and a tin of toffee. Everything you liked and some little rolls and a pot of butter.
Roast Beef and Yorkshire Pudding. Horseradish Sauce. Potatoes a la mode and Brussels Sprouts. Plum Pudding. Mince Pies. Caviare Antarctic. Crystallised fruits. Chocolate Bonbons. Butter Bonbons. Walnut Toffee. Almonds and Raisins. Wines. Sherry, Champagne, Brandy Punch, Liqueur. Cigars, Cigarettes, and Tobacco. Snapdragon. Pineapple Custard. Raspberry jellies.
Rule No. 17 forbade the students to enter the kitchen, or in any way to disturb the servants in the discharge of their duties. Agatha broke it because she was fond of making toffee, of eating it, of a good fire, of doing any forbidden thing, and of the admiration with which the servants listened to her ventriloquial and musical feats.
Rose produced a packet of sticky sweetmeat, and a moment later the four were sucking peppermint toffee and making themselves thoroughly objectionable to their neighbors. "But what about the girl the person you are laughing about?" asked Rose. "Oh, it's that stupid, tiresome Ruth Craven," answered Hannah. "Why, she's nobody.
Her small man, whose face was merry and whose hat appeared to be supported by his ears, looked up at Rosalie with an engaging smile and said in a very frank voice, "It's jolly useful for lugging up tight things or to hook up toffee that's stuck." They all three laughed. Huggo, busily engaged, took no notice. He found the knife he wanted. Rosalie showed him another.
"I copied it out of a book the other day, and put it round the toffee because I knew I should be wanting that, and then I should see it every time I took it out of my pocket, and not forget it." "But why did you throw the toffee away?" said Diavolo.
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