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"Not of me," said Elizabeth, quietly, but firmly. "Highty-tighty! and who art thou, my lady?" "I am your servant, mistress, and will do your bidding in everything that toucheth not my duty to God Almighty. But this I cannot."
The men told how agreeably she welcomed them, making every man feel at home. She remembered their likes and dislikes; she watched to see that their plates were kept full. When the table was cleared they were allowed to smoke and to play cards. Bela was good for a bit of fun, too; nothing highty-tighty about her. She had a clever tongue in her head. But all fair and above-board, you understand.
King Garded, triumphantly. But we must for awhile go to other parts of the room. Lady Longspade, Mrs. Fuzzybell, and Miss Finesse soon followed the daring example of Miss Ruff, and seated themselves with some worthy fourth compatriot. "Did you see Miss Ruff?" said Lady Longspade, whose ears had caught the scornful highty-tighty of the rejected lady. "She wanted to get me at her table.
"You are a bad little thing," she said. "Why didn't you come to me when I called you?" "'Cos I didn't want to, Aunt Jane." "But do you know that you have got to obey me, miss? What would your mother say?" "You isn't to dare to talk of mother to me," answered Diana. "Highty-tighty! I'm not to dare. Do you suppose, Diana, that I will allow a little child like you to defy me in my own house?"
Clive, looking amazed, said, "Certainly not, ma'am; I never did do it in the house, as I know you don't like it. I was going into the Square." The young man meaning that he was about to smoke, and conjecturing that his aunt's anger applied to that practice. "You know very well what I mean, sir! Don't try to turn me off in that highty-tighty way. My dinner to-day is at half-past one.
And she's helpful about the house for such a young cretur, and she's not a bit forth-putting or highty-tighty. I don't know how I should have managed if Candace had turned out the sort of girl some of 'em are, like those Buell girls, for instance, always raising Ned because they can't get down to Hartford or Bridgeport to shop and see the sights and have a good time.
"I shall marry whom I please, Aunt March, and you can leave your money to anyone you like," she said, nodding her head with a resolute air. "Highty-tighty! Is that the way you take my advice, Miss? You'll be sorry for it by-and-by, when you've tried love in a cottage and found it a failure." "It can't be a worse one than some people find in big houses," retorted Meg.
She stood between him and the window, and he was amazed at the change in her face. "She's like 'em a'," he muttered, angrily, as he went to his own sitting-room. "You may put a bridle in t' wind's mouth as easy as you'll guide a woman. If I hed been t' young squire, I'd hev brokken t' will a' to bits, that I would. 'Leave t' blinds alone, Jasper! Highty-tighty, she is.
"That is the truth; even this handsome dandy, Joris Hyde, is a lieutenant." "He was in the field two years. He told me so this afternoon. I dare say, he has earned his title, even if he is a lieutenant." "Don't be so highty-tighty, Cornelia. I have no objections to military titles.
It's just as Gerald Doak says to me in Chicago oh, yes, Jerry's an old friend of mine the wife and I are thinking of running over to England to stay with Jerry in his castle, next year and he said to me, 'Georgie, old bean, I like Lucile first-rate, but you and me, George, we got to make her get over this highty-tighty hooptediddle way she's got."
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