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There 's altogether too much fuss made about charity. I do wish we could be left in peace." "There can't be too much charity!" burst out Polly, forgetting her shyness all at once. "Oh, indeed! Well, I take the liberty to differ from you," returned Trix, putting up her glass, and bestowing upon Polly her most "toploftical stare," as the girls called it.
When the man and the girl had gone into the Bank of Canaan, the group at the Grange stopped gambling on the incoming teams and talked less drowsily. "Looks like that girl gets purdier and purdier." "Mighty pleasant ways she keeps. Never gone back on her raisin'. Never got too good for Mizzourah." "As far as I go, I like her ways better'n her pappy's ways." "Crit is a little toploftical."
It had a head that was a cross between an intelligent antelope and a rather toploftical baby rat. Its arms were extended at sharp angles, and seemed to be pointing in arch accusation at one. Wings spread fanwise from the shoulders, and its feet were like the feet of a griffin. "I never thought it would look just like that, did you, Billie?"
"In other words," said Calvin, spurred to emulate Hubbard's epigram, and involuntarily glancing toward the latter for approval, "you think a genius is a man who is able to harness Pegasus to the plough, and make him work without kicking things to pieces." "That's about it," Irons assented; "and I think Herman is too toploftical and full of cranky theories. They say Mrs.
"Yes," said every one of the men, only seeing the old gentleman, "but he's too toploftical to live" or something to that effect and then they would forget all about it till the companion's opera glasses leveled in the same direction, brought the conversation around to the old topic. "They had a flare-up with Mr.
With him a sort of cousin, who lives in New York State; and after a few days of toploftical strutting around town, and a pussillanimous crack or two over the back-garden fence at my birds, they went away again, to the home of this New York cousin, carrying Georgiana with them to spend the summer. Nothing has happened since.
After that imposing display the little girl had no fear at all. Jim was very toploftical to Miss Lily for several days. Then came the fatal day. There were no telegraphs to flash the news all over the country before midnight. A small one connected Baltimore and Washington, but long distance was considered chimerical. So they had to wait and wait. Fortunes varied.
Up to this point the chronicle has been what a chronicle should be. Perhaps the phraseology has been a trifle toploftical, and there are a few words in it long enough to run as serials, yet at any rate we are getting an effect in drama. But bear with me while I quote the next paragraph, just as I copied it down: The wretched husband saw but too distinctly the destruction of all he held dear.
"Now, Kit, listen here, when I struck Delphi, and landed with all that crowd of girls unexpectedly, you know how well I behaved, just for your sake. Don't you get superior and toploftical with the boys when they come, because every last one of them is the right sort, and they're expecting to find Gilead folks waiting for them with open arms from what I've told them."
"Come, Alan, there's a dear boy," she began persuasively, "tell us about the girls." "I don't know much about them," answered Alan. "Katharine is the older one, about fifteen, and Jessie is just my age. Her birthday is the third and mine the seventh. I suppose they're well enough, but their pictures look a little toploftical, and I'm not over fond of that kind.
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