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He looked that way and they fled giggling into the court; but in a moment they were back again, and the sound of their tittering drew his eyes anew to the door. It was the custom of the day for ladies of rank to wait on their favourites at table; and he wondered if Madame were with them, and why she did not come and serve him herself.
"Oh, then, I may as well begin pouring the tea at once," she observed coolly; "that's a feminine duty, you know, sir." "I'm glad you're not afraid of me," I ventured to say. "Afraid of you!" she replied, tittering. "No, indeed. It is you who are afraid of me. But I sha'n't hurt you, sir. You mind your affairs, and I'll mind mine, and neither of us will come to grief.
Peer clenched his hands under the clothes somehow he thought now of the Lord as a sort of schoolmaster in a dressing-gown. Yet it was some comfort all the same to have the old soul sit there and talk to him. Peer had much to put up with in the days that followed much tittering and whispers of "Look! there goes the priest," as he went by.
The tittering rose higher and higher the cat was within six inches of the absorbed teacher's head down, down, a little lower, and she grabbed his wig with her desperate claws, clung to it, and was snatched up into the garret in an instant with her trophy still in her possession! And how the light did blaze abroad from the master's bald pate for the sign-painter's boy had GILDED it!
"If a mouse had jumped out, I reckon it would have scared you mos' to death." The officer's cheeks flushed red, in spite of his every effort at control; nor was he assisted by the knowledge that his men were tittering behind his back. He turned upon them sharply. "That will do," he said, and gave a brusque command: "Corporal, deploy your men and make a thorough search outside.
I had to duck my head as I stepped forward, and there I was inside the room with the light pouring over me. I took one step forward, and stumbled over something, and then a tittering fool named Bentley, exclaimed: "Hello, here comes little Willie." I don't know how I got out.
Burton's tittering laugh. With the exception of Mrs. Ralston, who really did not count, he hated every one of the party that he left behind on the Club verandah, and he did not attempt to disguise the fact. But when an hour later he rolled off his horse in the compound of the policeman's bungalow at Khanmulla, his mood had undergone a complete change.
He gave no sign. She kicked him. He bore it meekly, crouching lower. There was some tittering in the crowd. "Get up, you nasty brute!" said the woman, and prodded the horrid monster. Nickie didn't even growl. The woman kicked, she kicked with force. She booted the terrible brute round the cage.
Losing an umbrella, falling in love, toothache, black eyes, and having your hat sat upon may be mentioned as a few examples, but the chief of them all is shyness. The shy man is regarded as an animate joke. His tortures are the sport of the drawing-room arena and are pointed out and discussed with much gusto. "Look," cry his tittering audience to each other; "he's blushing!"
"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. "That would be very much against your inclination, I should think, Miss Laura," observed Mrs Ferguson, tartly. "La! why so? how do you know, Mrs Ferguson?" "Because a sheep never changes its name until after it is dead.
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