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They had come to the forecourt of the cottage. "Hen!" cried Margaret. The window was wide open, but the blind was discreetly down. "Hello, Chum!" came back in muffled tones. "What's up now? Been and got yourself lost again?" "Come out, dear. I want you." "Half a jiff, old girl. Give a fellow a chance with his back hair. You had first tub this morning, remember."
Gull was just preparing to commence the fourth verse when there was a knock at the study door. "Wait a jiff," said Thurston. "Who's there? What d'you want?" "Why," came the answer, uttered in rather a drawling tone, "I wish you fellows wouldn't make so much row. I can't possibly work. Do be quiet." "Oh, go to Bath!" shouted Thurston. "It's only that old stew-pot Browse," he added.
That led them past Tenney's and when they reached the house Raven said: "You wait a jiff and I'll ask how he is." Tira came, in answer to his knock. She was gravely calm, not even disturbed in her secret mind, Raven concluded, not keyed up by inner apprehension, and keeping herself firm.
Slip on your hat and sack in a jiff, and come along." "I shall tan my hands," said Joy, reluctantly, as they went out. "Besides, I don't know what a jiff is." "A jiff is—why, it's short for jiffy, I suppose." "But what's a jiffy?" persisted Joy. "Couldn't tell you," said Gypsy, with a bubbling laugh; "I guess it's something that's in a terrible hurry. Tom says it ever so much."
Ye byes wont be scared of being lift to yersilves fur a few days?" he asked with so much earnestness that they hastened to assure him he need have no misgivings on that point. "We shall keep hard at it while you are away, but since Jeff is also absent we shall be lonely." "Luk fur me very soon. I'll advise Jiff to make ye an extra allowance for yer wurruk while him and me is doing nothing."
"Grizzel is a decent little kid; she'll be sorry by and by, and, besides, the old chap ought to have his diamond if it really is a diamond. Diamonds aren't so jolly easy to come by as Hugh seems to think. That white stone is almost in the middle of the circle I'll make for that." "Don't wait for me," he shouted after the others, "I'm coming in a jiff."
"Let's wait a jiff," said the Sunday to Edwin, and as the smaller boys showed no hurry he bawled out to them across the intervening cinder-waste: "Run!" They ran. They were his younger brothers, Johnnie and Jimmie. "Take this and hook it!" he commanded, passing the strap of his satchel over his head as they came up. In fatalistic silence they obeyed the smiling tyrant. "What are you going to do?"
He was still gazing when a man, dressed much the same as himself, but short, stockily built, and with the reddest hair and whiskers the boys had ever seen, his round face aglow with pleasure stepped hastily forward from the group of spectators and extended his hand. "Ah, Jiff, it does me good to see your handsome silf; and how have ye been, and how do ye expect to continue to be?"
What a nuisance! Can anybody get me any from anywhere?" "I'll find you some in half a jiff," said Dorrie Barnes, whisking off immediately. Since the formation of the Junior Rainbow League, Dorrie had taken a liking to Lispeth which amounted to absolute infatuation. She followed her like a pink-faced shadow, and was always at her elbow, sometimes at convenient and sometimes at embarrassing moments.
"Swindells," Alicia shouted to the original cabman, "just wait a jiff!" "Yes, miss." The original cabman, being old and accustomed to evening- party work in the Five Towns, knew the length of a jiff, and got down from his seat to exercise both arms and legs.
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