1. Chancey, who had never known his parents, was being raised by an old aunt in extreme poverty. 2. Not them, nor the dress, nor the old aunts and uncles, nothing like that. 3. Mitchell is like some dotty old aunt who comes down to Sunday lunch every few weeks and frightens the dickens out of the kiddies. 4. Now it is more of a hideout for dear old aunts enjoying Sunday brunch. 5. Oddly enough, old aunts convinced me that grown-ups could take it. 6. There was supposed to be an old aunt in the fishing port of Bermeo but some men in a tavern told them she had died. 7. Smaller families have weakened the tradition of old aunts or grandmothers dispensing advice within the clan. |