A great deal can be done in a week, particularly by those who give their minds to it because they know their time is short.

That process called turning the house out of windows took place when John was away.

Aunt Christie, who did not like boys, kept her distance, but Miss Crampton being very much scandalized by the unusual noise, declared, on the second morning of these holidays, that she should go up into Parliament, and see what they were all about.

Miss Crampton was not supposed ever to go up into Parliament; it was a privileged place.
"Will the old girl really come, do you think ?" exclaimed Crayshaw.
"She says she shall, as soon as she has done giving Janie her music lesson," replied Barbara, who had rushed up the steep stairs to give this message.
"Mon peruke!" exclaimed Johnnie looking round, "you'd better look out, then, or vous l'attrapperais." The walls were hung with pictures, maps, and caricatures; these last were what had attracted Johnnie's eyes, and the girls began hastily to cover them.
"It's very unkind of her," exclaimed Barbara.

"Father never exactly said that we were to have our own playroom to ourselves, but we know, and she knows, that he meant it." Then, after a good deal of whispering, giggling, and consulting among the elder ones, the little boys were dismissed; and in the meantime Mr.
Nicholas Swan, who, standing on a ladder outside, was nailing the vines (quite aware that the governess was going to have a reception which might be called a warning never to come there any more), may or may not have intended to make his work last as long as possible.