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It was very funny to hear it tittering about inside. The rest of the Gunki had clubbed together and bought her a gold-headed tuning-fork, so that she might be sure their answers were in tune. The Snimmy's wife brought her three large onions, neatly hemmed and tied in a bouquet with purple ribbon; the Snimmy himself a striped paper bag full of gum-drops.
Diggory, Vance, and Mugford hastily signed their names, one under the other, upon the slate. There was a good deal of tittering while they did so; but as a new boy is laughed at for nearly everything he does, they took no notice of it, and had hardly got back to their places when the master entered the room, and the work began in earnest.
Oh, yes, that was why, when we attempted to form in front of the altar, I insisted on standing next to Belle, and when I was finally pushed into my place by the irate Fred, I kept diving forward every time the clergyman said anything, trying to take the bride's hand, and responding, "Belle, I take thee to be my lawful, wedded," answering, "I do," loudly, to every question, even to that "Who gives this woman?" etc., until every man, woman, and child in church was tittering and giggling, and the holy man had to come to a full pause, and request me to realize that it was not I who was being married.
Meanwhile the grandmother and granddaughter were roused from the mute astonishment in which they were gazing after the young cavalier by a tittering behind them; and a pair of bright eyes looked out upon, them from beneath a bundle of long, crimson-headed clover, whose rich carmine tints were touched to brighter life by setting sunbeams.
At length, her vanity coming to her assistance, she went away tittering, and I could hear her pronounce the word 'creature! From this day forward, she came into the shop fifty times, every day upon various pretences, and put in practice so many ridiculous airs, that I could easily perceive her opinion of me was changed, and that she did not think me altogether an unworthy conquest.
He repeated his joke in Japanese. The girl wriggled with embarrassment, and finally scuttled away across the room, while the others laughed. All the geisha now hid their faces among much tittering. Geoffrey was becoming harassed by this badinage; but he hated to appear a prude, and said: "I have got a wife, you know, Mr. Fujinami; she is keeping an eye on me."
"Nay, brother, you have bought the horse, and you may have the bestowal of it." "Then I give it hide and hoofs, tail and temper to Nigel Loring, and may it be as sweet and as gentle to him as he hath been to the Abbot of Waverley!" The sacrist spoke aloud amid the tittering of the monks, for the man concerned was out of earshot.
I was not on a stage, but in a room, holding actual and rapt communion with my spirit-bride, Egeria!... "Egeria! Egeria!" I sobbed ... and tears streamed down my face. I was miserable, without her, in the flesh ... though she was there, beside me, in soul! I was aware of the audience again. I was proud and strong in my confidence now. The tittering had stopped. The house was filling with awe.
Then a roar from the bleachers surprised him. "Well, I'll be dog-goned!" exclaimed Delaney. "Red stole that sure as shootin'." Red Gilbat was pushing a brand-new baby carriage toward the batter's box. There was a tittering in the grand stand; another roar from the bleachers. Clammer's face turned as red as his hair.
And by a strange irony it so chanced that where the dominie sat and he moved not the whole morning long save to reach for his birches the crimson ray would often rest on the end of his long nose, and the word "rum" be passed tittering along the benches. For some men are born to the mill, and others to the mitre, and still others to the sceptre; but Mr. Daaken was born to the birch.
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