You must amuse him among you, and don't tease him, for he is not used to children." We "shook hands" all round, and I liked Polly's hand the best.

It was least froggy, cold, and spiritless.
Then Mrs.Ascott departed, and Maria (overpowered by the humming) "flopped" into her chair after a fashion that would certainly have drawn a rebuke from Miss Blomfield if an access of eye-dimness had not carried her to her own seat with little more grace.
Uncle Ascott had a large nose, and my cousins were the image of him and of each other.

They were plain, lady-like, rather bouncing girls, with aquiline noses, voices with a family _twang_ that was slightly nasal, long feet terribly given to chilblains, and long fingers, with which they all by turns practised the same exercises on the old piano on successive mornings before breakfast.

When we became more intimate, I used to keep watch on the clock for the benefit of the one who was practising.

At half-past eight she was released, and shutting up the book with a bang would scamper off, in summer to stretch herself, and in winter to warm her hands and toes.