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CHAPTER XII The Tansy Patch
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EMILY and Ilse had a splendid fortnight of fun before their first fight. It was really quite a terrible fight, arising out of a simple argument as to whether they would or would not have a parlour in the playhouse they were building in Lofty John’s bush. Emily wanted a parlour and Ilse didn’t. Ilse lost her temper at once, and went into a true Burnley tantrum. She was very fluent in her rages and the volley of abusive “dictionary words” which she hurled2 at Emily would have staggered most of the Blair Water girls. But Emily was too much at home with words to be floored so easily; she grew angry too, but in the cool, dignified3, Murray way which was more exasperating4 than violence. When Ilse had to pause for breath in her diatribes5, Emily, sitting on a big stone with her knees crossed, her eyes black and her cheeks crimson6, interjected little sarcastic7 retorts that infuriated Ilse still further. Ilse was crimson, too, and her eyes were pools of scintillating8, tawny9 fire. They were both so pretty in their fury that it was almost a pity they couldn’t have been angry all the time.
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“You needn’t suppose, you little puling, snivelling chit, that you are going to boss me, just because you live at New Moon,” shrieked10 Ilse, as an ultimatum11, stamping her foot.
“I’m not going to boss you—I’m not going to associate with you ever again,” retorted Emily, disdainfully.
“I’m glad to be rid of you—you proud, stuck-up,
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