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"Shall I show you about the establishment, madam?" he asked. Serena's composure was a triumph. An inexperienced observer might have supposed she had been accustomed to butlers and establishments all her life. "Yes," she said loftily, "you can show us." Mr. Hapgood was a person of wide experience; however, he merely bowed and led the way. Serena followed him, and Captain Dan followed Serena.
"Goodness, you haven't done anything," said Grace loftily, as the Little Captain vanished within the house, followed by black-eyed Mollie. "You just sit around and let all the others do the work and then take the credit to yourself." "That's all right if you can get away with it," grinned Allen.
Straight away along a vague path beginning at the rear of the malocas marched the twenty-four, the two northerners bending under the weight of their packs, the pair of Brazilians sweeping the jungle with practiced eyes, the score of Mayorunas striding velvet footed, resplendent in brilliant new paint and headdresses, armed with the most powerful weapons of their tribe, and loftily conscious of the fact that they were chosen as Monitaya's best.
So the girl found him in the garden and gave him her mistress' message very respectfully. But the brave king spoke loftily to her: "Your words are hospitality enough. Nothing else is necessary." Now when her mistress had heard what he said, she thought he was a noble character, better than anybody else.
'I will stay here with the little ones, she said, 'if you take Rosamond out to see your pets 'Oh! interrupted Miss Mouse. 'It's pets you mean! I didn't think of pets when you said "animals." "Pets" is a girl's word, you see, said Justin loftily, for he was already quite getting over his aunt's snub. 'Now, Justin, said Aunt Mattie quietly, 'I haven't finished.
"He may be yearnin' for breakfast," Jane remarked, completing her toilet by tying her little pigtail braid with something that had once been a bit of black ribbon, but was now a string. "You'd better come down soon and help." "If Mrs. Viggins cannot get breakfast, I would like to know what she is here for" continued Mrs. Mumpson loftily, and regardless of Jane's departure.
"Oh, don't spare my feelings," said Wallie, loftily, "there's nothing she could say would hurt them." "If that's the way you feel she meant you were 'harmless'." "I trust so," Wallie responded with dignity. "I'd ruther be called a er a Mormon," Pinkey observed. Shocked at the language, Wallie demanded: "It is, then, an epithet of opprobrium?"
"My dear Peter," he said gravely, "I am VERY sorry to see you here very sorry indeed." I admit that this exasperated me. Besides, no man on earth, not even my own family doctor, has any right to "My dear Peter" me! "There is no loud call for sorrow, doctor," I said loftily.
"Well," he said, cheerily, "I wish I were Lancaster. I might be able to do something for you: but I'm not in it not for a cent. You may as well take in the passing show, however. The first Casino hop is on to-night. Put on your togs and go." "Anybody there?" asked Andrew, loftily. "Oh, rather. All the cottagers will be there, or a goodly number of them. And it's a pretty sight."
Another heavy silence followed and Miss Langdon turned again to Teacher. "Don't you teach them by the Socratic method?" she asked loftily. "Oh, yes," Miss Bailey replied, and then, with a hospitable desire to make her guest feel quite at home, she added: "But facts must be closely correlated with their thought-content. Their apperceiving basis is not large."
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