Explore "The Moorland Cottage" by Elizabeth Gaskell on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
In three weeks, the day came for Edward's departure. A great cake and a parcel of gingerbread soothed his sorrows on leaving home.
"Don't cry, Maggie! " said he to her on the last morning; "you see I don't. Christmas will soon be here, and I dare say I shall find time to write to you now and then. Did Nancy put any citron in the cake?"