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"I cannot really tell you, Miss Lewis." "Oh, it does sound fine to hear you Miss Lewising me. My name is Carrie." "I prefer to call you Miss Lewis." "Highty! tighty! we are haughty. Well, the person who pays for Elma is our Aunt Charlotte a certain Mrs. Steward, wife of the Reverend John Steward, rector of St. Bartholomew's, Buckinghamshire.
You didn't see any cats about, did you?" "No, sar." "Have you seen Mr Christian at the tanks this morning?" "Yis, sar; but him's no dere now. Him's go to de mountain-top." "Ha! I thought so. Well, take the pig to my wife, Tighty, and say I'll be back before dark."
"Highty, tighty, my young bantam!" cried out the gentleman in question, the master's mate, a thick-set, full-grown fellow, old enough to be Tommy's father, who happened to be stretched at full length on one of the lockers at the further end of the gunroom, and was roused from his nap on hearing his name mentioned.
If you won't say who he is, what was the good of telling me that you were engaged at all? How is a person to believe it?" "I don't want you to believe it." "Highty, tighty!" "I told you my own part of the affair, because I thought you ought to know it as I was coming into your house. But I don't see that you ought to know his part of it. As for not believing, I suppose you believed Lady Fawn?"
Then with a look of mingled surprise and anger she left the room, and returned across the street to No. 10. "She doesn't seem to me to care a straw about it," said the niece to her aunt; "but she got up just as highty tighty as usual and asked me to go away." When the Quaker came to the door, and opened it with his latch-key, Marion was in the passage ready to receive him.
I have come for it. Will you give it to me, please?" Sam drew in his breath preparatory to giving a long whistle. "Highty! tighty!" he cried. "You have very grand airs, Miss Elma Lewis; but I didn't know that money was borrowed. Ho! ho! this puts a very unpleasant complexion on things. When dear old Car brought it to me I thought I might do what I liked with it.
Nora thought it quite unnecessary to put on her society manners for Kitty's benefit. "Come here, Kit, at once, when I call you," she said, in a cross voice. "I needn't come if I don't like," answered Kitty. "I'm not obliged to obey you, so don't you think it." "Highty tighty. Do you suppose I'm going to take impertinence from a little chit like you?
And when a mere boy, he used to complain that you were always finding fault with him!" "Highty, tighty! What next! The gentleman has the choice, has he, when to be found fault with, and when not!" "I give you fair warning," said Molly, hurriedly, "that I will do what I can to prevent you!" Aunt Ann was indignant.
"No, her shoes will last a long time yet. She doesn't need any new ones." By this time they had reached the long, low, green house on the farm adjoining theirs, and almost bumped into Mr. Hartman himself, as they dashed breathlessly around the corner in search of him. "Highty, tighty!" ejaculated the startled man, leaping aside to avoid a collision.
If Carlotta wants happiness with me I am afraid she will have to come to Dunbury." "You won't reconsider?" "There is nothing to reconsider. There never was any question. I am sorry you even raised one in Dad's mind. You shouldn't have gone to him in the first place. You should have come to me. It was for me to settle." "Highty, tighty!" fumed the exasperated magnate.
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