All this seemed very gratifying to Uncle John.

He thanked Beth very humbly for her kind attention, and laughed with Louise when she ridiculed his pudgy, round form and wondered if his bristly gray hair wouldn't make a good scrubbing brush.
Patsy didn't get along very well with her cousins.

From the first, when Louise recognized her, with well assumed surprise, as "the girl who had been sent to dress her hair," Patricia declared that their stations in life were entirely different.
"There's no use of our getting mixed up, just because we're cousins and all visiting Aunt Jane," she said.

"One of you will get her money, for I've told her I wouldn't touch a penny of it, and she has told me I wouldn't get the chance.

So one of you will be a great lady, while I shall always earn my own living.