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"But you see it's not my point of view. You're older than I " Jane smiled. "Hoity toity, Miss! I'm just twenty-eight and you're twenty-four. Age is not measured by calendars these days." "I didn't mean that," the girl apologized. "But you're an artist. You're established and distinguished. You belong to a different world." Jane Anderson laid her hand softly on her friend's. "That's just it, dear.
"Hoity toity!" cries Honour, "madam is in her airs, I protest. Mrs Honour, forsooth! sure, madam, you might call me by my sir-name; for though my lady calls me Honour, I have a sir-name as well as other folks. Ashamed to walk with me, quotha! marry, as good as yourself, I hope."
'Hoity toity, said Uncle Bat, 'she's going to make herself very grand to-day. That's all for you, Master Norman. Well, I suppose we may all go in and get ready; but mind, I have got no sweetheart, and so I shan't make myself grand at all; and so they all went in to dress for dinner. When Norman came down, Gertrude was in the drawing-room alone.
How far you may have just ground of complaint against him, I do not know, nor will I inquire. He is my father, and that should protect his name in my presence." "Hoity, toity!" "I will ask you to hear me if you please, sir. I have received very many good offices from you, for which I heartily thank you. I am aware that I owe to you all my education and support up to this time.
"Hoity, toity, Marquis! We do not all follow the same trade. Who talks of murder? Faugh!" Again he took a step towards me, but again the nozzle of my pistol drove him back. To have pistoled him there and then as he deserved would have brought the household about my ears, and that would have defeated my object.
But the girl had flung herself on her knees before her, and, clinging to her skirts, burst, into a flood of tears and prayers; while her sister-in-law stepped forward as if to second her, and cried out, in great excitement, that her Majesty would not be so cruel as to "Hoity, toity!" said the Queen, cutting her short, very grimly. "What is all this?
Should he lecture his wife for her presumption in meddling in his affairs, which were quite beyond her comprehension as a woman, or should he make light of the matter and laugh it off? After a moment's reflection he decided on the latter course. "Hoity, toity, Mrs. Eagleson! but what's set you so suddenly on fire?
Follock," put in the anxious mother; "may I ask the reason for that opinion?" "Too much Suntay, Matam Littlepage the poy wilt be sp'ilt by ter ministers. He will go away an honest lat, and come pack a rogue. He will l'arn how to bray and to cheat." "Hoity toity! my noble colonel!" exclaimed the Rev. Mr. Worden, affecting more resentment than he felt.
"I am heartily glad to hear of it, my dear young lady," exclaimed the admiral warmly; "he is worthy of you and you are of him, and that is saying a great deal for you. Hoity toity!
But our Jack is not like that, sir; and I will not have him spoken of. Leave him indeed! Who wants you to do more than to leave him alone, sir; as he might have done you the other night; and as no one else would have dared to do. And after that, to think so meanly of me, and of my children! 'Hoity, toity, Sarah! Your children, I suppose, are the same as other people's.
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