our farthest point , just the day before we all had to turn around and start for home again , as the best of expeditions must in time , we three made a discoverydiscovery.
Miss Marjoribanks was not vain ; but the word had taken possessionpossessionof her imagination , as was natural , and solacedsolaceher much when she made the painful discoverydiscoverythat her gloves were half a number larger , and her shoes a hair-breadth broader , than those of any of her companions ; but the hands and feet were both perfectly well shaped ; and being at the same time well clothed and plump , were much more presentable and pleasant to look upon than the lean rudimentary schoolgirl hands with which they were surrounded .