I tiptoed down the path and stooped behind the low wall which surrounded the stunted orchard. Creeping in its shadow, I reached a point whence I could look straight through the uncurtained window.

Only a male intellect clouded by the sexual drive could call the stunted, narrow-shouldered, broad-hipped and short-legged sex the fair sex.

One day when the little robin slept on a vine until dawn, at daybreak, he found himself entangled and strangled by this vine. It then said to it: “You should never trust the verjuice vine, whether it is green or stunted."

Suddenly we looked down into a cup-like depression, patched with stunted oaks and furs which had been twisted and bent by the fury of years of storm. Two high, narrow towers rose over the trees. The driver pointed with his whip. “Baskerville Hall,” said he.

At the age of ten Caroline was stricken with typhus. The disease permanently stunted her growth.