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Cordts has sworn thet if he can't steal the King he'll get you." "Oh! he prefers the horse to me." "Wal, Lucy, I've a sneakin' idea thet Cordts will never leave the uplands unless he gets you an' the King both." "And, Dad you consented to let that horse-thief come to our races?" exclaimed Lucy, with heat. "Why not? He can't do any harm. If he or his men get uppish, the worse for them.
When the other animals came back to luncheon, very boisterous and breezy after a morning on the river, the Mole, whose conscience had been pricking him, looked doubtfully at Toad, expecting to find him sulky or depressed. Instead, he was so uppish and inflated that the Mole began to suspect something; while the Rat and the Badger exchanged significant glances.
"Maybe she's shy, as Miss Vincent was." "Shy! Cordelia Burr shy!" shouted Alice, in derision. "No; she's anything but shy," said Janey; "she's as uppish and independent as she can be." "But maybe she puts that on. Maybe " "Maybe she's a princess in disguise!" cried Alice, scornfully. "Well, I don't care. I think we ought to try and see if perhaps we are not on the wrong track with her; and I "
There was nothing in that for a man to get uppish about, but he turned and actually glared at me. "I might be an inquisitive son-of-a-gun and ask you the same thing," he growled. "Yes, you might," I agreed. "But, if you did, I'd be apt to tell you to depart immediately for a place called Gehenna which is polite for hell."
She had only a few girl friends, and even these no doubt were beginning to think her uppish. She did not take off her hat and coat. She wandered through the empty rooms, undecided. If she went to a movie the rooms would be just as lonely when she returned. Companionship. The urge of it was so strong that there was a temptation to call up someone, even someone she had rebuffed.
You hire 'em to serve you, and to serve you civil; and they are jest as dumb uppish and impudent as they can be. And hotel- clerks now, they don't know what civil-service means." "Why, uncle Nate said when he went to the Ohio, last fall, he stayed over night to Cleveland, and the hotel-clerk sassed him, jest because he wanted to blow out his light: he wanted uncle Nate to turn it off.
Then, with a smile of peevishness not unmingled with contempt, he added: "He's getting too uppish for me. I don't think the Latin agrees with him."
I remember a pony I had once." I'd had him out to grass all the winter, and one day in the early spring I thought I'd take him for a run. I had to go to Amersham on business. I put him into the cart, and drove him across; it is just ten miles from my place. He was a bit uppish, and had lathered himself pretty freely by the time we reached the town. "A man was at the door of the hotel.
'Theer's no call to be so uppish But if I tek a chance like that I expect to be paid for it. 'Two pound ud mek it wuth your while to do more than that. 'I'll dew it, said the wizard. 'Give us the money? 'Wheer's the stuff? 'Why, it ain't made yet. D'you think as I can percure a precious hessence like that all of a minute? 'Then mek it, an' I'll gie you the money.
"Who was he?" Joe asked. Mahooley shrugged. "Search me! Long before my time." "If old Musq'oosis is no relation, what does he hang around for?" asked the first questioner. "Oh, he's always kind of looked after her," said Mahooley. "The other Indians hate her. They think she's too uppish." "She feeds him; I guess that's reason enough for him to stick around," remarked Mattison.
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