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She was taken with strong hysterics: I found her kicking and screaming like a good one in Strong's chamber, along with him and Colonel Altamont, and Miss Amory crying and as pale as a sheet; and Altamont fuming about a regular kick-up. They were two hours in the Chambers; and the old woman went whooping off in a cab. She was much worse than the young one.
Allingford can't interfere with them as long as they keep to themselves. I don't know what they do, but I shouldn't be surprised if there is a rare old kick-up one of these fine days." Mischief certainly was brewing, and the "kick-up" came sooner than even Carton himself expected. Wednesday, the twenty-fourth of July, saw the whole of Ronleigh College in a state of bustle and excitement.
For the first two days of this new 'kick-up, that 'fellow Freeland's' family undoubtedly tasted the sweets of successful mutiny. The fellow himself alone shook his head. He, like Nedda, had known nothing, and there was to him something unnatural and rather awful in this conduct toward dumb crops.
"I really wouldn't kick-up shines," said he, imploringly. "You'd be a queer Guinea-pig if you didn't!" was the flattering answer. "And how many times a week would you go on strike, eh?" "Oh!" said Stephen, "I'll never go on strike again; I don't like it."
The fact is, Jilly," said he, when Raffles had departed on his quest, "I wanted to get the beast out of the way while I told you I'd got an idea." "Oh, what, Tom?" asked Jill, in tones of surprised pleasure. Tom glanced round cautiously, and then whispered, "You and I'll give a small kick-up here on our own hooks. What do you say?" "A party! Oh Tom! how clever of you to think of that!"
But when the boy came in, there was such a bellowing and such a kick-up, that one might easily have believed that there were at least thirty. "Moo, moo, moo," bellowed Mayrose. "It is well there is such a thing as justice in this world." "Moo, moo, moo," sang the three of them in unison. He couldn't hear what they said, for each one tried to out-bellow the others.
His face fell. "And I was planning a little kick-up at Symonds's," he said ruefully; "a fiddle or two to celebrate the occasion; nothing out o' the way. The first time you dropped on us, if you remember, we was not quite ourselves, owing to poor dear Bill: and I'd ha' liked you to form a cheerfuller idea of the place. But if 'tis duty, my lad, England expec's and I'm not gainsaying. Duty, is it?"
Instead of holding the heavy weapon extended, the butt of it and her forearm rested on the table, the muzzle pointed, not at his head, but his chest. And he, looking coolly and obeying her commands, knew there was no chance of the kick-up of the recoil producing a miss.
"I fancy there will be a lively kick-up on the part of the game," said Louis, as the boat came up to her course. "Not much," added Scott. "If we put them through the water at the rate of eight knots an hour, the crocs will not feel much like doing any gambolling. We are not making more than four knots now." "They are as lively now as a parched pea in a hot skillet."
I meant to have reminded you, Felix, to send the car back and take a fly. I thought you knew that Mother's terrified of motors." And at his mother's answer: "Oh! no; I quite enjoyed it, dear," he thought: 'Bless her heart! She IS a stoic! Whether or no to tell her of the 'kick-up at Joyfields' exercised his mind.
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