Aunt Theresa's daughters and I were like sisters.

They showed me their best frocks, and told me exactly all that had been ordered in the parcel that was coming out from England.
"Don't you have your hair put in papers ?" said Matilda, whose own curls sat stiffly round her head as regularly as the rolls of a lawyer's wig.
"Are your socks like lace?
Doesn't your Ayah dress you every afternoon ?" Matilda "took me up." She was four years older than I was, which entitled her to blend patronage with her affection for me.

In the evening of the day on which I went to the Bullers, she took me by the hand, and tossing her curls said, "I have taken you up, Margery Vandaleur.

Mrs.Minchin told Mamma that she has taken the bride up.

I heard her say that the bride was a sweet little puss, only so childish.
That's just what Mrs.Minchin said.