I should die if I went about much longer a perfect mountain of clothes.

How would you like to wear a 'hug-me-tight' under a serge coat in this weather ?" "Not at all.

But what shall you say to Aunt Pike ?" "I shan't say anything; but I suppose you will," sneered Anna.
"I do wish you wouldn't be always poking and prying about where you are not wanted.

You might know that people like to be left alone sometimes." "I am sure," cried Betty, quite losing her temper at that, "I would leave you quite alone always, if I could; and I am _not_ a sneak, and that you know.

It would have been better for Kitty if I had been.
I don't know how you can say such things as you do, Anna, when you know what we have had to bear for you.