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"What a spitfire she is," thought the barrister. He always knew his cousin was angry with him when she addressed him as "Robert Audley." "You needn't pitch into a fellow because he asks you a civil question, Alicia," he said, reproachfully. "As to nobody caring about your health, that's nonsense. I care." Miss Audley looked up with a bright smile. "Sir Harry Towers cares."
"Baron de Carjorac? Do you mean the French Minister of the Interior, the President of the Board of National Defences, Miss Lorne that enthusiastic old patriot, that rabid old spitfire, whose one dream is the wresting back of Alsace-Lorraine, the driving of the hated Germans into the sea? Do you mean that ripping old firebrand?" "Yes.
She was followed in order by the Sanspareil, screw, the sailing ships being moved by steamers lashed alongside, Albion, by Firebrand; Queen, by Vesuvius; Britannia, by Furious; Trafalgar, by Retribution; London, by Niger; Vengeance, by Highflyer; Rodney, by Spiteful; Bellerophon, by Cyclops; Arethusa, by Triton; while Samson, Tribune, Terrible, Sphinx, Lynx, and Spitfire acted as look-out ships, and were allowed to take up independent positions.
Lieutenant Kline was to remain on board the "Spitfire," both in order to watch the work and to give Eph any instructions that might be necessary in order to make the tests more conclusive. "If you will come along with me, then, Mr. Benson," suggested Major Woodruff, "I will put you ashore on the neck. On the way over I will give you your instructions."
She stopped sewing to listen to the conversation between the girls. Landis was not nonplussed, whatever the circumstances. She was not offended now by Elizabeth's words, but was surprised. She appeared shocked that Elizabeth should be crude enough to show vehemence. "What a little spitfire you are, Elizabeth! When you're a few years older you'll learn not to express yourself so strongly.
"But you laughed at it you think it's so you " She was trembling in a sudden resentment at once inexplicable and amusing to the other two. "Highty-tighty! you little spitfire!" cried her father, laughing. "I see your finish, my boy!" "Good gracious, Lydia, how you do fly at a man! I take it back. I take it back."
"I put this view, in talking of the trial, to the military commandant a few days since. His vulgar wife answered me before he could speak. 'Madame Fontaine, said this spitfire, 'my husband and I don't feel your sympathy with poisoners! Take that as a specimen of the ladies of Wurzburg and let me close this unmercifully long letter.
When he saw Diana, however, rushing madly through the hall, with her eyes shining, her face white, and her whole little body quivering with excitement, he could not help exclaiming under his breath at her remarkable beauty. "What a handsome little spitfire!" he said aloud. "Spitfire, indeed!" said Diana; "it's you all who is spitfires; it's not me. I want to say something to you, big man."
They had porter; and on such occasions, what better beverage would you ask? Swiftly and gaily did the slim bark cleave through the glassy sea. Its hue was a dark crimson, with one black stripe its nom de guerre, the Spitfire. As the regiment particularly prided itself on its aquatic costume, we shall describe it.
They parted company where the roads met, an' I heard Sir Shawn trottin' his horse up the road in front o' me, an' Spitfire that was Mr. Comerford's horse was unaisy an' refusin' the dark road under the trees. You couldn't tell what the crathur saw, God help us all! No horse liked that road.
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