The Penderwicks Flashcards
I went to the zoo and I saw an anteater, a buffalo, and a cangaroo.
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This trip should have taken an hour and a half, and already they’d been on the road for three.
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Your tomatoes look delicious, but what I really need is directions.
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It was all a cottage is supposed to be, small and snug, with a front porch, pink climbing roses, and lots of trees for shade.
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It was a tunnel, carefully hidden behind a clump of tall wildflowers and just the right size for going through on all fours.
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Excuse me, said the boy with great dignity. My mother’s calling me and you’re in my way.
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Then one of us has to apologize for you, for the family honor.
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And practical people, she thought, shouldn’t go all silly and forgetful around handsome teenage boys.
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And then I’d ask you to have pity on motherless girls brought up without a woman’s gentle influence, which doesn’t really count, because our father is gentle, but I thought it sounded good.
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This gave her a chance to do some research for her book.
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Well, you won’t be lonely for the next three weeks, because we’ll be here.
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So she went upstairs to her neat white bedroom, pulled her math book out of her suitcase, and forgot all about the cookies.
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One of his favorite sayings was, Take a walk, clear your head.
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She crept out from behind the bush and over to the gate and put her eye to a knothole.
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The king of the field, the bull, sauntered out into the sunshine and proudly surveyed his realm.
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Their hearts laid bare by the near loss of a loved one, the two enemies declared a truce.
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Something in her tiny rabbit brain had recognized the presence of a kindred spirit in the room.
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Music is what I really want to do.
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By taking in seams and adding tucks, I can make these dresses look like they were designed for you three.
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Walking down that long room behind her back was nothing to doing it under her gaze.
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She hated it when untrustworthy people made promises they wouldn’t keep.
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They had escaped as soon as they could, which meant not until they had finished dinner and birthday cake.
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A country club fit for kings
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Whenever I try, she starts talking about how wonderful my grandfather was and how much I remind her of him.
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She knew hearing bad things about yourself is one of the punishments for eavesdropping.
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Do you know they allow boys to start as young as eleven?
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In the meantime, she would work hard and write the best book she could.
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All of that about the yard stretching to where the rabbits lived and maybe she could go by herself - wrong, wrong, wrong.
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That’s right, you shouldn’t have, like you shouldn’t be here in my gardens.
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But this was his something-is-not-right-in-my-world bark.
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He leapt right into them, and the two tumbled to the ground and rolled over and over in a frenzy of joyful reunion.
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Satis eloquentiae, sapientiae parum.
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As I was saying, in some cultures it’s believed that when a person saves someone from death, he or she forever owns a part of that someone’s soul.
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They shot lots of rubber-tipped arrows, they practiced soccer, they even played hide-and-seek when desperate, until finally the competition day itself arrived.
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A pair of navy blue high heels and, a little higher up, a white pleated linen skirt with a bit of crushed pink jasmine clinging to the hem.
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Her face was dreadful to see - the fury, humiliation, and frustration, it was all there - but she was silent
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How’s the competition going?
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An urn now full of glorious, lush, blooming pink jasmine.
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This twine is keeping the ladder rolled up in the tree.
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The family - her mother’s! - honor was at stake, and she had to defend the people she loved the best.
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She ran along the hedge, plunged through the tunnel, raced around the marble thunderbolt man, and came to a sudden halt, struck by the beauty of the place.
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I needed some air, so I took a walk, fell into the lily pond, and hit my head on a rock.
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I showed him my new book, and he told me the truth.
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He was wearing his camouflage hat and a backpack and was carrying a bow.
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Where are your wings?
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It was even more horrible than I’d thought it would be
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Her hair was sticking up in strange places, and she was wearing bedroom slippers and an old raincoat over her nightgown.
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There was only a golf bag in his bed and this note
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I’ll tell her that all I know so far is that he’s safe and that I’ll cal her after I’ve tortured the whole truth out of my children.
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It’s between him and his mother now.
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The sisters took turns watching out the window for him, but he never came, and he never called.
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Four heads turned to watch the yellow cottage disappear slowly into the trees.
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Good-bye, secret passage in the closet.
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And there he was at her window, in his Red Sox cap, friendly and cheerful and just the same as always.
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Thanks for all the plant talks
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He cut through the hedge to the cottage in case you hadn’t left and sent me this way in case you had - and here he comes.
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So we talked and then she cried, and we talked and she cried and that went on forever.
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She said I’m allowed to take a music class at the conservatory!
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Yes, he said good-bye for now.
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