Susan was sitting flatly in the middle of the kitchen floor with a dazed , bewildered look on her face , while Doc , evidently in his Hyde incarnation , was standing on the dresser , with his back up , his eyes blazing , and his tail the size of three tails . `` Susan , what has happened ? '' cried Mrs. Blythe in alarm . `` Did you fall ? Are you hurt ? '' Susan picked herself up . `` No , '' she said grimly , `` I am not hurt , though I am jarred all over . Do not be alarmed . As for what has happened -- I tried to kick that darned cat with both feet , that is what happened . '' Everybody shrieked with laughter . The doctor was quite helpless . `` Oh , Susan , Susan , '' he gasped . `` That I should live to hear you swear . '' `` I am sorry , '' said Susan in real distress , `` that I used such an expression before two young girls . But I said that beast was darned , and darned it is . It belongs to Old Nick . '' `` Do you expect it will vanish some of these days with a bang and the odour of brimstone , Susan ? '' `` It will go to its own place in due time and that you may tie to , '' said Susan dourly , shaking out her raddled bones and going to her oven . `` I suppose my plunking down like that has shaken my cake so that it will be as heavy as lead . '' But the cake was not heavy .
It was all a bride 's cake should be , and XXXXX iced it beautifully .
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