Their snow-ball did not gather as it went.

As to changing them for a pack of your little hop-o'-my-thumbs, no bigger than the one you lent me t'other night — ! suppose I should ask you to let me have the mare you rode to cover o'Thursday — and a clever mare she is, […] .

Geoffrey's face was a study in amazement [or in bewilderment, irritation, distress etc.]

The window display really catches my eye.