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It was a fine sight to see how this fiery little bit of a woman faced my tall, strong aunt, who towered above her, her large face red with wrath. "Never!" she cried. "I have been it is I who am insulted and put to shame, in my own house, by a chit of a miss." "Then good-by," said Darthea, and was by me and out of the house before I could see what to do or know what to say. "She is gone!" I cried.
Gather wood, quickly quickly all-ll the dry wood you can!" And the friendly little cedar gave of its one brown arm, the spruce chit, the birch stripling, the pine urchin all the hop-o'-my-thumb timber that flourished in this wild pass contributed of the dead limbs torn from them by last winter's blasts, to burn up the chill in the old Man Killer's heart.
I cannot tell you what I should think a lover would be," faltered Aurelia, colouring crimson, and hiding her face on her sister's shoulder, as old habits of confidence, and need of counsel and sympathy were obliterating all the warnings of last night. "You silly little chit! Why don't you encourage these advances? You ought to be charmed, not frightened."
Thomas departed, hoping that by the skillful change of tone, from ardent impatience to condescending coolness, he had impressed one hearer at least with the fact that he regarded Trix as the star of his existence, and Polly as a presuming little chit.
I can't hardly believe Miss Salisbury; she tells me the chit practices every minute she can save from other things. Be sure to have her asked, Charlotte, child." "I will ask Amy," promised Charlotte, with a pang at the thought of the delight over Jack Loughead's handsome face at her invitation. "And you are to sing," cried the little doctor jubilantly. "Now we are all capitally fixed.
My men will tell you where I am and show you the way. Why not destroy this letter? "Athelstan." He folded the note and stuck a postage stamp on it in lieu of seal. Then he examined the packs with the aid of the flashlight, sorted them and ordered two of the mules reloaded. "You three!" he ordered then. "Take the loaded mules into Ali Masjid Fort. Take this chit, you.
She was amused by his talk, which was simple, straightforward, rather humorous and keen, and interspersed with homely expressions of a style which is sometimes called slang. It was the first specimen of a young London dandy that Laura had seen or heard: for she had been but a chit at the time of Mr.
After asking Clapperton how he did, and several other chit chat questions, he was not a little surprised, without a single question being put to him on the subject, to hear, that if he wished to go to Nyffee, there were two roads leading to it, the one direct, but beset by enemies; the other safer, but more circuitous; that by either route he would be detained during the rains, in a country at present in a state of rebellion, and therefore that he ought to think seriously of these difficulties.
"What's 'chechako' mean?" Kit asked. "You're one; I'm one," was the answer. "Maybe I am, but you've got to search me. What does it mean?" "Tenderfoot." On his way back to the beach, Kit turned the phrase over and over. It rankled to be called tenderfoot by a slender chit of a woman.
King carelessly. "And that you can talk with that chit, ignoring me, your cousin's wife, is insufferable." Mrs. Chatterton now arose speedily from the divan, and shook out a flounce or two with great venom. "I had intended to make you a visit. Now it is quite impossible."
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