`` I 'm going to climb it to-morrow , '' I said joyfully . Off to the right was a dim , branching place which we knew was the orchard ; and on our left , among sibilant spruces and firs , was the old , whitewashed house -- from which presently a light gleamed through an open door , and Aunt Janet , a big , bustling , sonsy woman , with full-blown peony cheeks , came to welcome us . Soon after we were at supper in the kitchen , with its low , dark , raftered ceiling from which substantial hams and flitches of bacon were hanging . Everything was just as father had described it . We felt that we had come home , leaving exile behind us . Felicity , Cecily , and Dan were sitting opposite us , staring at us when they thought we would be too busy eating to see them . We tried to stare at them when THEY were eating ; and as a result we were always catching each other at it and feeling cheap and embarrassed . Dan was the oldest ; he was my age -- thirteen . He was a lean , freckled fellow with rather long , lank , brown hair and the shapely King nose . We recognized it at once . His mouth was his own , however , for it was like to no mouth on either the King or the Ward side ; and nobody would have been anxious to claim it , for it was an undeniably ugly one -- long and narrow and twisted . But it could grin in friendly fashion , and both Felix and I felt that we were going to like Dan . Felicity was twelve . She had been called after Aunt Felicity , who was the twin sister of Uncle Felix . Aunt Felicity and Uncle Felix , as father had often told us , had died on the same day , far apart , and were buried side by side in the old Carlisle graveyard . We had known from Aunt Olivia 's letters , that Felicity was the beauty of the connection , and we had been curious to see her on that account . She fully justified our expectations . She was plump and dimpled , with big , dark-blue , heavy-lidded eyes , soft , feathery , golden curls , and a pink and white skin -- `` the King complexion . '' The Kings were noted for their noses and complexion . Felicity had also delightful hands and wrists .
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