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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."
"I may be wrong," said the philosopher, "but I suspect that, owing to the way in which Latin and Greek are now taught in schools, the accurate grasp of these languages, the ability to speak and write them with ease, is lost, and that is something in which my own generation distinguished itself a generation, indeed, whose few survivers have by this time grown old; whilst, on the other hand, the present teachers seem to impress their pupils with the genetic and historical importance of the subject to such an extent that, at best, their scholars ultimately turn into little Sanskritists, etymological spitfires, or reckless conjecturers; but not one of them can read his Plato or Tacitus with pleasure, as we old folk can.
I told her I'd have out any man who abused Diana Warwick, and I broke with her. By Jove! Redworth, those women can prove spitfires. They've bags of venom under their tongues, barley-sugar though they look and that's her colour. But I broke with her for good. I doubt if I shall ever call on her again. And in point of fact, I won't. Mrs. Fryar-Gunnett was described in the colouring of the lady.
"This bed is endowed temporarily, the doctor says, to be used at his discretion, and he wants to keep you here till some one comes who needs this room more than you do. At present there isn't any one, so you needn't worry. We are not going to let any more little feather-headed spitfires in to see you, either. The doctor balled the office out like everything for letting that girl up."
"Yet I think I have heard some Italian operatic spitfires, and of some!" said Lady Charlotte. "What opinion do you pronounce in this controversy?" Cornelia made appeal to Sir Twickenham.
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