This means you may suck your brushes if you want to, or even your paints if you are a very little boy.
It was rather jolly while Noel had that cold.

He had a fire in his bedroom which opens out of Dicky's and Oswald's, and the girls used to read aloud to Noel all day; they will not read aloud to you when you are well.

Father was away at Liverpool on business, and Albert's uncle was at Hastings.

We were rather glad of this, because we wished to give all the medicines a fair trial, and grown-ups are but too fond of interfering.

As if we should have given him anything poisonous! His cold went on--it was bad in his head, but it was not one of the kind when he has to have poultices and can't sit up in bed.