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Quote #4
The young boy, who was about five, wasn't ready to sit down yet. He slid out of and discarded his reefer; then, with the deadpan expression of a born heller, he methodically went about annoying his governess by pushing in and pulling out his chair several times, watching her face. (10)
The narrator betrays a certain admiration for the little boy's gutsy behavior here – there's a kind of nostalgia for the good old days of childhood, when any behavior was permissible.
Quote #5
"You go to that secret Intelligence school on the hill, don't you?" she inquired coolly.
As security minded as the next one, I replied that I was visiting Devonshire for my health.
"Really," she said, "I wasn't quite born yesterday, you know." (23-25)
This typical pre-teen statement reminds us of something we should never forget as adults: kids are not as gullible as we think (or hope) they are.