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"My ideas are Fred's ideas," said Uncle Barber, somewhat sharply. "What I like he has to like, naturally." "I was thinking of my darter," said Mrs. Banks, smoothing down her apron majestically. "The arrangement was, I think, that when they were, married they was to live with you?" Captain Barber nodded acquiescence.
Then she said majestically, but with a tremor in her metallic voice: "I am not surprised." "It is my doing," shrieked Aunt Aggie, in the strangled squeak in which we always explain that it is "only a crumb" gone wrong. And she relapsed into a fresh spasm. Lady Blore sternly bade her be silent. Colonel Bellairs was slightly annoyed.
Crawley flung her morning robe round her and descended majestically to the drawing-room, whence the noise proceeded. The cook was there with blackened face, seated on the beautiful chintz sofa by the side of Mrs. Raggles, to whom she was administering Maraschino.
Ann did flush guiltily. Her eyes fell. "You beseech 'em not to think hard of me," she urged. "I never do put it in my bedroom, you know yourself them two places I keep it in, but there 'twas." Mrs. John C. turned majestically to be gone. She spoke with an emphasis that seemed, even to her, inadequate. "Well, Ann Barstow, I should think you was losin' your mind."
The front door slammed violently, and Jackson, advancing cautiously to the window, saw the form of his wife sailing majestically up the passage. Then he sat down again and resumed his meditations. "If it wasn't for leaving all my property I'd go," he said gloomily. "There's not a bit of comfort in the place! Nag, nag, nag, from morn till night!
The bars of sunlight fell on the lower earth from the steep hills like pointed swords; the foggy swamp of wet vapor trembled and broke, so touched, rose at last, leaving patches of damp brilliance on the fields, and floated majestically up in radiant victor clouds, led by the conquering wind. Victory: it was in the cold, pure ether filling the heavens, in the solemn gladness of the hills.
"Then I will finish executing your orders, reverend prior," said Borromée, retiring with Jacques. "Go," said Gorenflot, majestically. "Ah!" said Borromée, "I had forgotten; there is a friend in the parlor who asks to see your reverence." "What is his name?" "M. Robert Briquet." "Oh! he is not a friend; only an acquaintance." "Then your reverence will not see him?"
As far as the eye could reach the blue-clad throng heaved restlessly to and fro under the blaze of the brilliant sun which harassed everyone in the valley, and, moving slowly and majestically in the midst of them all, came the foreigner.
Our progress on the whole was satisfactory, although, when we arrived between 48 and 52 degrees north latitude, we narrowly escaped coming in contact with an enormous iceberg, two of which were descried at daybreak by the "look-out," floundering majestically a little on the ship's larboard quarter, not far distant, the alarm being raised by an uproar on deck that filled my mind with dire apprehension, the lee bulwarks of the vessel were in five minutes thronged with half-naked passengers, who had been roused unexpectedly from their slumbers, staring in terror at the frigid masses which we momentarily feared would overwhelm the ship.
For my part, I have done my duty, and here and now renounce all responsibility in the future management of your affairs. Saying which, she rose, in a stately and incensed way, and looking with flashing eyes over Dorcas's head to a far corner of the apartment, without another word she rustled slowly and majestically from the drawing-room.
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