You won't try to put any frogs down my back, will you ?" I crept all over when I thought of such a thing.
"We'll do all we can to make you happy at West Inch," said I, playing with the whip.
"I'm sure it's very kind of you to take a poor lonely girl in," said she.
"It's very kind of you to come, Cousin Edie," I stammered.

"You'll find it very dull, I fear." "I suppose it is a little quiet, Jack, eh?
Not many men about, as I remember it." "There is Major Elliott, up at Corriemuir.

He comes down of an evening, a real brave old soldier who had a ball in his knee under Wellington." "Ah, when I speak of men.

Jack, I don't mean old folk with balls in their knees.

I meant people of our own age that we could make friends of.