I'm striving very hard to overcome it and now that I'm really thirteen perhaps I'll get on better." "In four more years we'll be able to put our hair up," said Diana.
"Alice Bell is only sixteen and she is wearing hers up, but I think that's ridiculous.

I shall wait until I'm seventeen." "If I had Alice Bell's crooked nose," said Anne decidedly, "I wouldn't--but there! I won't say what I was going to because it was extremely uncharitable.

Besides, I was comparing it with my own nose and that's vanity.

I'm afraid I think too much about my nose ever since I heard that compliment about it long ago.

It really is a great comfort to me.