As I told you when I wrote, he had ordered an enormous outfit, which will, I am sure, cost hundreds of pounds.

He makes me go to the playhouses, and all sorts of amusements; and all the time he has been so kind he scolds, and grumbles, and predicts that I shall be hanged." "I'm sure you won't," Kate, his youngest sister, said indignantly.
"How can he say such a thing ?" "He doesn't mean it," Charlie laughed.

"It's only his way.

He will go on just the same way with you, I have no doubt; but you mustn't mind, you know, and mustn't laugh, but must look quite grave and serious.
"Ah! Here he is.
"Oh, Uncle, this is kind of you!" "Hold your tongue, sir," said his uncle, "and try and learn not to speak to your elders, unless you are addressed.
"Niece Mary," he said, kissing her upon the forehead, "I am glad to see you again.

You are not so much changed as I expected.
"And these are my grandnieces, Elizabeth and Kate, though why Kate I don't know.