Sweetmeats

The servants, and the young ladies also, decked out the tree. On one branch they hung little nets, cut out of colored paper; every net was filled with sweetmeats; golden apples and walnuts hung down as if they grow there, and more than a hundred little candles, red, white, and blue, were fastened to the different boughs.

Before each of us was a gilt dish of sweetmeats, specimens of the most perfect dainties of the confectioner’s art.