“I didn’t know until later, until I hovered on the periphery of being one of them, just how much they had laughed at me between the rounds of the interview.”
″‘I was greatly tempted to let out,’ said Oliver, ‘but the fact is- I know you’ll jeer, Wray- the fact is, I’ve been trying feebly to turn over a new leaf this term.‘”
“Nasreddine took the bottom of his robe in his mouth and scrambled up onto the donkey, pleased with his trick _no one would make fun of this father walking calmly behind, his head wrapped in a handsome turban.”
Poor Heathcliff! Hindley calls him a vagabond, and won’t let him sit with us, nor eat with us any more; and, he says, he and I must not play together, and threatens to turn him out of the house if we break his orders.