There's a couple of very good lines that Maggie has to Edith when she's feeling a bit blue and she's moaning and moping a bit, and Violet says, " Don't be defeatist, dear, it's very middle class" .
It wasn't as strong in lots of different ways, so for example, I felt I used to slouch more, I didn't sit up straight, I didn't stand straight, because I don't think I had the strength in the bottom of my back.
'Not these three, ' Oates said. 'They're ill, and unhappy, and now they can't walk. Let's kill them, and leave the meat here, in the snow. We can eat it, or the dogs can.'
A restless spirit possessed her, and the old feeling came again, not bitter as it once was, but a sorrowfully patient wonder why one sister should have all she asked, the other nothing.
Up went a handful of soft snow, and the head turned at once, showing a face which lost its listless look in a minute, as the big eyes brightened and the mouth began to smile.
The editor was, according to the description, a half-bald, long-legged, slouching individual " so rocking in gait that he walks down both sides of the street at once" .