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And yet behold them now, gravely, the gaze of the entire company, entering together, sitting together by the fire, watching with serious eyes the clumsy efforts of an unhappily ambitious Freshman to make clear his opinions of the Navy, the Government and the British Islands generally only, ultimately, producing a tittering, stammering apology for having burdened so long with his hapless clamour, the Debate.
Nor was there any occasion, for the table was loaded. "Perhaps Miss Laura Revel will permit me to send her a slice of this mutton?" said the obsequious colonel. "No, I thank you; I have eaten nothing but mutton lately. I think I shall be a sheep myself soon," added the young lady, tittering.
"Yer want yer barf?" it asked. "I do, Gertrude," I said; "and after that I want my breakfast. I have a lot to do today." The head withdrew itself, tittering; and a moment later I heard a shrill voice calling down the kitchen stairs. "Grahnd floor wants 'is 'ot water quick." Within about five minutes the ground floor's wish was gratified, Mrs.
Whereupon the pine warbler sang again, the same trill but with a tittering twang about it that just jocosely imitated the flicker. I saw no other warbler or other bird near enough to be the beneficiary of this joke.
I went down into the gun-room, when a tittering ceased as the sentry opened the door, and I walked in. "Did you want me, sir?" said I to the first lieutenant, touching my hat, and looking very demure. "So, Mr Keene, I understand it was you who have been practising upon Mr Green, and teaching him insult and disrespect to his superior officers on the quarter-deck. Well, sir?"
Eliza and Georgiana, evidently acting according to orders, spoke to me as little as possible: John thrust his tongue in his cheek whenever he saw me, and once attempted chastisement; but as I instantly turned against him, roused by the same sentiment of deep ire and desperate revolt which had stirred my corruption before, he thought it better to desist, and ran from me tittering execrations, and vowing I had burst his nose.
Hereupon Moggy held out one arm bent, and with the palm of her other hand slapped her elbow "There!" cried she. What Jemmy's wife meant by this sign, it is impossible for us to say; but that it was a very significant one was certain, for Mr Vanslyperken foamed with rage, and all the cutter's crew were tittering and laughing.
"The gentleman from from Elkington, Mr. Krebs." There was a craning of necks, a staring, a tittering. I burned with vicarious shame as Krebs stood there awkwardly, his hand still holding the desk. There were cries of "louder" when he began; some picked up their newspapers, while others started conversations. The Speaker rapped with his gavel, and I failed to hear the opening words.
She seemed to glory in her triumph, and when Mahdi butted into a corner and refused to stir, she took him by one leg, and towed him twice round the cage, and the tittering the crowd swelled to yells of derisions and ribald laughter, while Professor Thunder pranced about and cursed furiously.
This ceremony being performed amidst much tittering and flustering, accompanied by many knowing looks and some expressed wishes among the swains, who hoped that their turn might come next, Dame Tetlow arose, and the squire seizing her hand, they began to whisk round in a sort of jig, singing merrily as they danced "Prinkum prankum is a fine dance, And we shall go dance it once again!