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It only proved to be a rough bit of sugar, however, and still the interminable coating melted copiously in his mouth; and still the clean, fragrant almond evaded his hopes. At last with a groan he spat the seemingly undiminished bonbon on to the floor, and turned as white and trembling as an arrowroot blanc-mange.
Upon a cheap little table with broken corners was a heap of New Year's cards, bonbon boxes, and novels with soiled edges. Upon the floor, near the children, were some remnants of toys; and the cradle in which the baby slept at night was pushed into a corner with a child's chair, the arms of which were gone. Zilah was both astonished and pained.
And, if I felt in that manner as I entered the house, I felt it to a still greater degree when I was welcomed by that most lovely old black slave woman of the high temper and good cookery. She opened the door for us herself, though a nice boy the color of a chocolate bonbon stood in waiting to perform that office.
Horses back carts against helpless females, barrels roll upon people's toes, newspaper hawkers puff their wares, bonbon venders push their plaster of Paris abominations almost at people's eyes, yet, strange to say, it is very seldom that any accident occurs.
"I don't think about it at all," observed Sylvia, opening another letter impatiently. "You're probably not very literary," said Grace mischievously. "Not in that way, I suppose." Mrs. Ferrall took another bonbon: "Did you see 'Mrs. Lane's Experiment'?" "I did," said Sylvia, looking up, the pink creeping into her cheeks. "You thought it very strong, I suppose?" asked Grace innocently.
As to Fly, she fraternized to a great extent with a very small maid, in a very long, brown dress, and very thick boots, who did not taste a single bonbon, and being asked whether she understood that they were good to eat, replied that she was keeping them for 'our Bertie and Minnie; and, on encouragement, launched into such a description of her charges the blacksmith's small children that Lady Phyllis went back, not without regrets that she could not be a little nurse who had done with school at twelve years old, and spent her days at the back of a perambulator.
And from that audience chamber I went quickly and alone in my good Cherry to Twin Oaks, was admitted by Bonbon, whom I instructed not in any way to allow that I be interrupted, ascended to my own apartment and seated myself in a large chair before the glowing ashes of a small fire of fragrant chip twigs, which kind Madam Kizzie had had lighted, against what she called a "May chill," during my toilet of the morning.
And leave my door open to see what else fate will send me." She clasped her hands behind her back, laughing nervously. "It's like the old child's game 'open your mouth and close your eyes and see what God will send you? usually something not at all resembling the awaited bonbon.... Good-bye, my altruistic friend and thank you for your XXth Century advice, and your Louis XVI assistance."
What do you mean?" "I fancied I could take the Carnival as a child takes a big bonbon and just think with a smack of the lips, 'My! how good this is. But here I am, wondering what my candy is made of all the time, and forgetting, except at odd moments, to enjoy myself for trying to separate false from true, and gold from gilt. Still, what is the use of this stuff now!
They fed him, almost against his will, with a few of the forced strawberries Nuttie had brought. Billy pressed on him wonders from a Paris bonbon box, and Annaple fastened a rose and a pink in his button-hole, and came down to the street door with her boy to see him off. 'What do you think of her? was Mark's first inquiry. 'Think! As Mr. Dutton said long ago, never was braver lady!
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