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After thinking it all over I made up my mind to take the small boy's seat, but just where he would sit I did not know. When I returned to the ambulance after the next rest I was careful to get there first I sat down on the back seat and made myself comfortable, but I must admit that my heart was giving awful thumps, for Mrs. Barker's sharp tongue and spitfire temper are well known.
'Remembering, however, if you'll be so good, that Miss Floy's under my charge, and Master Paul's under your'n. 'But still we needn't quarrel, said Polly. 'Oh no, Mrs Richards, rejoined Spitfire.
"I guess it's so!" Cephas responded gloomily. "It's nip an' tuck 'tween him an' Mark Wilson. That girl draws 'em as molasses does flies! She does it 'thout liftin' a finger, too, no more 'n the molasses does. She just sets still an' IS! An' all the time she's nothin' but a flighty little red-headed spitfire that don't know a good husband when she sees one.
Howlman waited impatiently in the boat, and then a big, official-looking letter was handed down the ladder to the boatman, addressed: "O.H.M.S. Commander Arness, H.M.S. Spitfire care of H.B.M. Consul, Levuka, Fiji." Mr. Howlman smiled to himself with the satisfied air of a man who has done his duty.
"I can make him go!" said Jackanapes, and drawing from his pocket the trumpet he had bought in the fair, he blew a blast both loud and shrill. Away went Lollo, and away went Jackanapes' hat. His golden hair flew out, an aureole from which his cheeks shone red and distended with trumpeting. Away went Spitfire, mad with the rapture of the race, and the wind in his silky ears.
And Arness handed him a photograph of a man dressed in white ducks and a straw hat, evidently taken by an amateur. Carteret looked at the photograph for fully a couple of minutes before he answered slowly "No, I don't think that this is the man." A few hours later the Spitfire had steamed in close to the land, and a boat was lowered.
Gurley should notice the smell when she came in and, as they munched, Miss Snodgrass related how she had just confiscated a book Laura Rambotham was trying to smuggle upstairs, and how it had turned out that it belonged, not to Laura herself, but to Lilith Gordon. "She was like a little spitfire about it all the same. A most objectionable child, I call her.
A couple of miles away Eph Somers was slowly running the submarine back and forth over the water in seeming aimlessness. In response to sharp blasts from the whistle of the Army tug, the "Spitfire" was seen to turn and head for the tug. "Mr. Somers, you will follow in our wake," shouted Major Woodruff, when the two craft were within hailing distance of each other.
It happened that this neighbour was one of those people who make mischief by talking too much; so, meeting the pedlar in the 'serai, or inn, that evening, he told him what had occurred, and added: 'Yes; and the young spitfire said that if beating the donkey would not do, he would beat you also, and cut your nose off for a thief!
If you were half a man if you were white, you wouldn't try to use that against me like you do." "I'm using it for you. Why, you li'l' spitfire, can't you see as Jake Houck's wife you get a chance to live? You'll have clothes an' shoes an' pretties like other folks instead o' them rags you wear now. I aim to be good to you, June." "You say that. Don't I know you?
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