He was rather small for his age;-and I don't think had ever been seen with a clean face.
Even at church, though the immediate front turned to the minister might be passable, the people in the next pew had always an uninterrupted view of the black rim where washing operations had left off.
The next on the list--I am going from youngest to oldest, you see--was the "show" Woolcot, as Pip, the eldest boy, used to say.
You have seen those exquisite child-angel faces on Raphael Tuck's Christmas cards?
I think the artist must just have dreamed of Nell, and then reproduced the vision imperfectly.

She was ten, and had a little fairy-like figure, gold hair clustering in wonderful waves and curls around her face, soft hazel eyes, and a little rosebud of a mouth.

She was not conceited either, her family took care of that--Pip would have nipped such a weakness very sternly in its earliest bud; but in some way if there was a pretty ribbon to spare, or a breadth of bright material; just enough for one little frock, it fell as a matter of course to her.
Judy was only three years older, but was the greatest contrast imaginable.

Nellie used to move rather slowly about, and would have made a picture in any attitude.

Judy I think, was never seen to walk, and seldom looked picturesque.