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"I want one of your ten-dollar flower-books." Quite unmoved by the lavishness of her customer, Marietta rose in her stately way, and drew forth several specimens of her most expensive flower-book. Dayton examined them with an attempt to be discriminating, remarking that the book was for some California friends of his wife who were inclined to be "snifty" about Colorado flowers.
There was in his heart both thanksgiving and sorrow, but he could not give words to either, and after several vain efforts he said reverentially: "I hope Aunt Hannah will have just as snifty a time in this world as she deserves, for she's a dandy, if there ever was one!" Then he crept between the lavender-scented sheets and gave himself up to the pleasure of gazing at his surroundings.
And she oh, my she looked as if she thought the world and all of him." "Well," exclaimed her mother and her sister again. "Sho!" said the old man. "You wimen leave William alone and quit your gabbling." The three women made a combined assault upon him. "Well, we ain't a-hurting him, are we, pa? You needn't be so snifty. I guess we ain't a-hurting him much." "Well," said the old man.
Miss Petrovitch, to our amazement, embraced a rather dirty old peasant, the doctor disappeared to find us luncheon, the Frenchman to wash, and we strolled about. A voice hailed us, and turning round, we found our mackintoshed American of Pod. We took him to the inn and stood him a drink. Dr. Ob came in and we introduced; but Dr. Ob was snifty and the American shy.
"Jest sort o' snifty." "That's what," corroborated the steward, looking at me. "Jest sort o' smelly like fer new junk." "What has Jim Potts got against the old man?" I asked. "You said he didn't believe the skipper had been in a ship before." "Nothin' I knows of, 'cept he was hot fer turnin' back this mornin' an' tried to get th' men to back him in comin' aft." "Do you mean it's mutiny?"
Did ye iver hear tell av a sailorman a-callin' a line a 'rope' or a bloomin' hooker like this a 'boat'? No, sir, ye can lay to it he's niver had a ship before; an' so says Jim Potts, the same as passed th' line fer ye this mornin'. Kin I pass ye the junk? It's sort o' snifty fer new slush, but I don't complain." "What's the matter with the meat?" I asked, glad to change the conversation.
It's snifty, as dad used to say. You can't draw a long breath through your nostrils without freezing y'r nose solid as a bottle," he announced, throwing off his coat. "By-the-way, I've just found out why you was so anxious to get into this house. Another case o' girl, hey?" Bert blushed; he couldn't help it, notwithstanding his innocence in this case.
It's jest snifty; doubles me up like a jack-knife, Judge. How do you stand it?" "Toler'ble, toler'ble, Amos. But we're agin', we ain't what we were once. Cold takes hold of us." "That's a fact," answered Amos to the retrospective musings of the Judge. "Time was you an' me would go t' singing-school or sleigh-riding with the girls on a night like this and never notice it."
Bert couldn't forget that smile, and he was still thinking about the girl, and what her life must be, when Hartley came in. "By jinks! It's snifty, as dad used to say. You can't draw a long breath through your nostrils; freeze y'r nose solid as a bottle," he announced, throwing off his coat with an air which seemed to make him an old resident of the room.
"Snifty beast!" said my lady, and tried to get on with the conversation; but that governess made things impossible. "Come here!" said my lady suddenly, holding out a grubby hand; and I went very close to her, and she put her little head down upon the wall until her black fog of hair tickled my cheek.
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