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You want woman to be a mere lump of sugar, content to be left in a bowl until it pleases you in your high-and-mightiness to take her in the tongs and drop her into the coffee of your existence, to sweeten what would otherwise not please your taste and like most men you prefer two or three lumps to one." I could only cough. The lady was more or less right.
If I might have described just one of your days to his high-and-mightiness! There is no need to tell you, I think, whether I did or not. 'Then when we got up to go, Lady Charlotte asked Rose to stay with her.
"And you are a fortunate woman if, when it suits your high-and-mightiness to come to your senses, he doesn't take his turn to jilt YOU! On my word, I never heard anything like it! What possesses you is more than I can understand. You deliberately bring unhappiness down on your family, and act as if you were proud of yourself!
At the first reply or two to his letters he frowned; at the second or two he smiled in the way any elderly gentleman may smile when he finds himself recognized by high-and-mightiness as a person of importance. "I think, my dear," said he at last, "I've arranged everything for you."
It looked as if he were trying to make himself indispensable to the telegraph people in the little time that remained, so as to keep his job. He never came in to see Axel now that Barbro was gone, but went straight by a piece of high-and-mightiness ill fitted to his state, seeing that he was still living on at Breidablik and had not moved.
If I might have described just one of your days to his high-and-mightiness! There is no need to tell you, I think, whether I did or not. 'Then when we got up to go, Lady Charlotte asked Rose to stay with her.
"Madam Pat has got 'em all up at the Club, plotting in a corner at the little dinner dance we got up when his High-and-Mightiness refused the rural expedition, as soon as they heard you were not to go, Governor," said my Buzz with a great anxiety in his face. "I'd like to see anybody put out Mrs. Pat's light when she is once lit." "It's all right, Buzz, and don't worry.
No feeling is much more unpleasant than the loathing of an old vanity; and though this of Marian's was not yet old, yet that touch of Edmund's which had shown her how he regarded her "high-and-mightiness," had made her very much ashamed of it.
The pony and cart aren't much, perhaps, but still it is fun to have them to fly over the place. Well, and how goes her little high-and-mightiness? Frumpy, I can see. Grumpy, I can guess. Now, is Pauline glad to see poor old Nance eh?" "Of course, Nancy; but I have come to say " "We'll have no 'buts, darling, if you please." "I can't come to the picnic, Nancy; I really cannot."
I don't suppose you heard anything outside about it?" "Only that Thorne had resigned." "That so!" Auntie Belle ruminated on this a moment. "Well, I'm right glad to hear it. I'd hate to think I was fooled on him. Reckon 'resign' means fired for daring to say anything about His High-and-mightiness?" she guessed. Bob shook his head. "Couldn't say," said he. The busy season was beginning.
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