I'm to be Hope, with my hands clasped--so--and my eyes uplifted.

I'm going to practice my recitations in the garret.

Don't be alarmed if you hear me groaning.

I have to groan heartrendingly in one of them, and it's really hard to get up a good artistic groan, Marilla.
Josie Pye is sulky because she didn't get the part she wanted in the dialogue.

She wanted to be the fairy queen.