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True, the bread and butter was of wafer-like thinness, there were hot cakes of the crispest, finest variety, and the plum-cake which was Martha's welcome to the bride was of the richest, most tempting description.
"Leave it to me," she said, and the very next day she fried pancakes, and selecting the brownest and crispest she put them in a plate with a white napkin over them and bade Karl take them to his father.
"They have been a good deal admired," Uncle Dan observed dryly, yet with a friendly twinkle that flickered over into the crow's-feet which were such an important feature of his equipment as uncle. And May, nothing daunted, pursued her own train of thought with unflagging spirit. "Vittorio, which way is the Lido?" she asked presently, in her crispest Italian.
He turned and lifted his face to the breeze which blew from the sea over flat stretches of sand and seaweed the crispest, most invigorating air in the world except that which blows on the Baltic shores. "I prefer Farlingford. I am half a Clubbe and the other half! Heaven knows what that is! The offshoot of some forgotten seedling blown away from France by a great storm.
Then he pointed to Jackeroo, who was watching in bewilderment while the Maluka hunted for the crispest crust, not for himself, but the woman. "White fellow big fellow fool all right! eh, Jackeroo?" he asked, and Jackeroo openly agreed with us.
He turned and lifted his face to the breeze which blew from the sea over flat stretches of sand and seaweed the crispest, most invigorating air in the world except that which blows on the Baltic shores. "I prefer Farlingford. I am half a Clubbe and the other half! Heaven knows what that is! The offshoot of some forgotten seedling blown away from France by a great storm.
If, when they were under the stress of traveling, she did not appear at the breakfast table till every one else had finished, the only question was, how Gwendolen's coffee and toast should still be of the hottest and crispest; and when she appeared with her freshly-brushed light-brown hair streaming backward and awaiting her mamma's hand to coil it up, her large brown eyes glancing bright as a wave-washed onyx from under their long lashes, it was always she herself who had to be tolerant to beg that Alice who sat waiting on her would not stick up her shoulders in that frightful manner, and that Isabel, instead of pushing up to her and asking questions, would go away to Miss Merry.
Next to the color, the hair is the most distinguishing characteristic of the Negro, but the two characteristics do not vary with each other. Some of the blackest of the Negroes have curly rather than woolly hair, while the crispest, most closely curled hair is found among the yellow Hottentots and Bushmen.
King as Jack Loughead was cleverly off; "we are so near, it's a pity not to drop down on them." "Don't you think you ought to hurry back to Brierly?" asked Jasper, having hard work not to show that he cared anything about it one way or the other. "No, I don't," answered his father, in his crispest fashion. "No one needs me there; Mrs. Cabot is a host in herself, and those boys may who knows?
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