The railway officials knew her, and no doubt shrugged their shoulders, but the warmheartedness shining in her eyes and her unvarying cheerfulness carried everything before them, so that her eccentricity was readily overlooked.

And she had plenty of similar caprices.

I was visiting her once in the Christmas holidays, when I was a schoolboy in the upper class, and we had retired for the night.

At one o'clock my aunt suddenly appeared at my bedside, waked me, and told me to get up.

The first snow had fallen, and she had had the horses harnessed for us to go sleighing, which she particularly enjoyed.
Resistance was useless, and the swift flight over the snow by moonlight proved to be very enjoyable.