Both were kissed very tenderly, but Tom she wanted to keep by her, to try to trace the features of the baby she had loved, and talked to, of his infant preference of herself.

Tom, however, had no mind for such treatment: he came home not to stand and be talked to, but to run about and make a noise; and both boys had soon burst from her, and slammed the parlour-door till her temples ached.
She had now seen all that were at home; there remained only two brothers between herself and Susan, one of whom was a clerk in a public office in London, and the other midshipman on board an Indiaman.

But though she had _seen_ all the members of the family, she had not yet _heard_ all the noise they could make.

Another quarter of an hour brought her a great deal more.

William was soon calling out from the landing-place of the second story for his mother and for Rebecca.