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enthusiastic. It was not to us what it would 

 have been at the golden moment when we 

 begged for it. 



In hours of unbridled hostility to domestic 

 conditions we used sometimes to plan for a 

 future when we should be grown up, and then 

 would we not change this sorry scheme of 

 things entire! Would we not have a larder, 

 with desserts in it, our favorite desserts 

 and would we not devour these same, boldly, 

 recklessly, immediately before the meal for 

 which they were intended! Just wouldn t 

 we! 



, And afterward just didn t we! Most 

 youthful fancies are doomed to fade unreal 

 ized, but this one was too fundamentally 

 practical and sane. We are grown up, we 

 have a larder, with now and then toothsome 

 desserts in it, and now and then we grip our 

 conscience till it cowers and is still, we wait 

 till the servants are out, we walk into our 

 pantry and then 



Yes, triumphant we still believe what once 

 militant we maintained that the only way 

 to eat cake is when it is just out of the oven, 

 that the only way to eat ice cream is to dip 



