Only three fellows went in for it; which you needn't allude to at head-quarters;" and he sighed again.
As we passed slowly under the shadow of the heavy foliage, Jack, like Eleanor, put up his left arm to drag down a bunch of roses.

They were further advanced now, and the shower of rose-leaves fell thickly like snowflakes over us--over Jack and me, and Neddy and the carriage, with the hat-box on the driving seat.

We must have looked very queer, I think, as we came up out of the overshadowed road, like dwarfs out of a fairy tale, covered with flowers, and leading our carriage with its odd occupant inside.
Keziah, who had been counting the days to the holidays, ran down first to meet us, beaming with pleasure; though when Jack, in the futile attempt to play leap-frog with her against her will, damaged her cap, and clung to her neck till I thought she would have been throttled, she indignantly declared that, "Now the young gentlemen was home there was an end of peace for everybody, choose who they might be.".