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| 73ca17b | Mrs Forrester ... sat in state, pretending not to know what cakes were sent up, though she knew, and we knew, and she knew that we knew, and we knew that she knew that we knew, she had been busy all the morning making tea-bread and sponge-cakes. | humor cakes tea-parties pretense modesty | Elizabeth Gaskell |