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"My Ladies' Aiders weren't old women that is, not many of them, so very old," she corrected hastily, her usual proclivity for truth and literalness superseding her anger; "and " "Well, I'm not Jimmy Bean, either," interrupted the boy, uptilting his chin. "You're not Why, Jimmy Be What do you mean?" demanded the little girl.
Other things had been bought in town that day, and Appleman had no difficulty in giving reasons for the lateness of his home-coming. Next day, though, he was a busy man. By the exercise of main strength, and the leverage afforded with a strong ironwood handspike, he succeeded in rolling both those barrels into the cave and uptilting them, and leaving them standing high and dry.
"You remember, I was in your father's office for a year. That was before I succeeded with my plans for the Michamac cantilever bridge and went to take charge of the construction as resident engineer." "Your plans?" muttered Blake incredulously. "To be sure. I remember now," said Genevieve absently, and she turned to look about, with a perplexed uptilting of her arched brows.
Three minutes later Frank sang out the word, and both the farmer and Felix ran along with the machine for a dozen paces or so, when it left them behind, taking on speed, and finally rushing over the ground at a tremendous pace. Uptilting the planes caused it to leave the ground and start to curve gracefully upward, as the whizzing propeller did its noisy duty.
Five thousand francs! A mist swam before my eyes, "Mais, Madame la Comtesse . . ." I stammered. "Oh!" she added, with an adorable uptilting of her little chin, "I am not promising what I cannot fulfil. M. le Comte de Nolé only said this morning, apropos of dog thieves, that he would gladly give ten thousand francs to anyone who succeeded in ridding society of such pests."
"Cursin' mostly," answered Carter, peering down through a slight uptilting of the scuttle. "They don't just know what's happening yet, but the big nigger seems ter be raisin' hell. Carlson is a holdin' him back with his cutlass." "Open up and let me down."
Now the Prince of Monaco's yacht lay at anchor and several others, hardly less handsome, rode snugly offshore, but with the enthusiasm of a connoisseur the tall gentleman disregarded all the rest and let his admiring gaze dwell on the Isis. The face was studiously altered. Where there had been a full mustache there was now only a thinly clipped line, waxed and uptilting in needle points.
"Your deal if you want to play," drawled Miguel, and shoved his cards toward Big Medicine. But the boys were already uptilting chairs to grasp the quicker the outstretched hand of the prodigal, so that Miguel gathered up the cards, evened their edges mechanically, and deigned another glance at this stranger who was being welcomed so vociferously.
But I thought your complaint was that there was nothing at all amusing to do in Arcady." "Ah," said Mr. Canning, "but I'm having my second thoughts now." She had given him a third, uptilting look with her speech; and now it was as if the great eligible had seen her for the first time.
It was only when MacFarlane's firm step was heard on the stairs outside that the two awoke to another world. Jack reached his feet first. "Shall we tell him?" he asked, looking down into her face. "Of course, tell him," braved out Ruth, uptilting her head with the movement of a fawn surprised in the forest. "When?" asked Jack, his eager eyes on the opening door. "Now, this very minute.
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