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Updated: June 1, 2025
That's a good idea, blaming one's negligence on a spell. I must remember that. But the bandage? Dear, no; the only cloth I see is the kitchen towel, and I can't recommend it. But what a goose I am! Our grips are in the car, or under it, or somewhere. I'll be back in a jiffy." And she was off at a sharp trot down the trail along which she had so recently come in Dave Elden's wagon.
Squire Partridge's son's here, 'long with a friend; been gunnin', want luncheon, and I'm all in the suds; do come down and see to 'em. "'Where are they? says Kitty, scrambling up her hair and settlin' her gown in a jiffy, as women have a knack of doin', you know. "'Mr. Joe's in the front entry; the other man's somewheres round, Billy says, waitin' till I send word whether they can stop.
"Pass your gray cloak out the window, and also your spindle and twine; and I will give you my green mantle and everything else down to my bow and arrows." While they were talking, Robin had been nimbly changing clothes with the old woman, through the window, and in a jiffy he stood forth complete, even to the spindle and twine.
It was not more than eight inches in length and looked to be a very common-looking thing. But while the miners were wondering what the "heathen Chinee" was up to, Hop suddenly gave the piece of bamboo a twist, and the next minute a small, bright-colored parasol was in his hand. This was raised in a jiffy, and then he went parading around the room with it over his head.
Framed in one of the square ports of the packet was a face which reminded Ah Cum of a Japanese theatrical mask. One side of the face was white with foamy lather and the other ruddy-cheeked and blue-jawed. "Speak English?" boomed the voice. "Yes; I speak English." "Fine! I'll be wanting a guide. Where can I get one?" asked O'Higgins. "I am one." "All right. I'll be with you in a jiffy."
The letter reached Curzon Street during the afternoon, and exercised a remarkably restorative effect on the now convalescent lover of forced strawberries. Lady St. Maur ordered her carriage, and was driven in a jiffy to the Fairholme mansion in Cavendish Square, where she and her brother indulged in the most lugubrious opinions as to the future of "poor George."
Then he walked to the front end of the store and began to unhook the dust curtains. Very gingerly he took hold of them, being careful to disturb them as little as possible. Mr. Farnham and the girl clerk watched him. Every other boy had jerked them down and chucked them under the counter in a jiffy.
"Ruth and the others have it," explained Helen, quickly. "Then I'll go find them at once. I know my way around pretty well in the dark. I couldn't get really lost in this cave," and Jerry laughed, shortly. "I've got matches if you want them," said Bob. "Got a plenty, thanks. You folks go back to your friends, and I'll hunt out Miss Fielding in a jiffy."
"So am I, me dearie, to say you," replied the other, with the slightest wee bit of a brogue, aunt Polly having been born in the North of Ireland, where blue eyes with black hair and brogues are common; "an' Bob, too, the darlint! How are you, me boy!" "All right, auntie, right as a jiffy," said he brightly, greeting her with like effusion to his sister.
"Oh, your Majesty," cried Mrs. Russell, "do not forsake me! Without you it is too too too horrible!" "Shure ain't I telling yez," said "His Majesty," "that I'm only goin' to get loights, an' that I'll be back in a jiffy? Be quiet, now, an' it 'll be all right." With these words "His Majesty" tried gently but firmly to disengage Mrs. Russell's clasped arms from about his neck.
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