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Therefore the father waxed thoughtful from his topknot to the end of his long-stem pipe. "I tell you what I'll do," he finally said to his wife. "We'll go ahead with the ceremony, but instead of my daughter I'll substitute my orphan niece." And he did, and the young fellow didn't know any better for a week. Fortunately, however, my story doesn't end here.
"She'll git it all out'n me ef I don't look sharp," he said to himself. Then aloud, "Whar's mam?" he demanded, flinging himself into a chair and looking loweringly about. "Topknot hev jes kem off'n her nest with fourteen deedies, an' she an' 'Melia hev gone ter the barn ter see 'bout'n 'em." "Whar's Pete?" "A-huntin'." A pause.
The next morning everybody felt fresh, and ready for new adventures. "All going but the cat," said Fly, never doubting that her own company was most desirable. "Look up in my eyes, little Topknot with the blue bonnet on. Will you run away from brother Hollis again?" "Not if you don't take my skipt," replied Fly, looking as innocent as a spring violet. "And look up in my eyes, Horace Clifford.
Close at hand, now, was a chance for a blood-curdling Alpine adventure. Close at hand was the snowy mass of the Great Altels cooling its topknot in the sky and daring us to an ascent. I was fired with the idea, and immediately made up my mind to procure the necessary guides, ropes, etc., and undertake it. I instructed Harris to go to the landlord of the inn and set him about our preparations.
Chrysantheme is ready; Oyouki hurries, changes her dress, and, putting on a mouse-colored gray robe, begs me to arrange the bows of her fine sash black satin lined with yellow sticking at the same time in her hair a silver topknot.
The lawyer's wife, in a grand gown and topknot of feathers, which she was said to have worn to a great party at the governor's house in Boston, composed to majestic approval her handsome florid face, and stood back with a white-gloved hand on an arm of each of her daughters, slender and pretty, and unshrinkingly radiant in the faces of the doctor's college-bred son and his visiting classmate.
"I didn't think she'd climb so far without the use of the gas. She's doing well." "Bless my topknot, yes!" exclaimed Mr. Damon. "She beats the Red Cloud, Tom. Try her on a straight-away course." Which the youth did, pointing the nose of the craft along parallel to the surface of the earth, and nearly a mile above it.
Then Fly's feet were cold, and Horace took her to the stove; but that made her eyes too hot, and she danced back, to lie with her head on his breast and her feet against the window, till she suddenly whirled straight about, and planted her tiny boots under his chin. "O, Topknot, Topknot, I pity that woman with the baby, if she feels as lame all over as I do!" "Where's the baby, Hollis? O, I see."
They knew nothing of celibacy; but married, reared families and kept their scalps free from the razor, though some of the lower order of shrine-keepers dressed their hair in ordinary style, that is, with shaven poll and topknot. At some of the more important shrines, like those at Isé, there were virgin priestesses who acted as custodians both of the shrines and of the relics.
"Look at the topknot of the fellow we have in the wagon." The moonlight was sufficiently clear to enable Harry to distinguish a pronounced difference. "So another tribe that our captive does not belong to has been pursuing us?" This news was of so much importance that Harry waked up George, although it was not his hour for the watch.
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