"My sister had a trenchant way of cutting our bread-and-butter for us that never varied." (7)

"I indicated in what direction this mist had shrouded [the other convict]." (15)

Let's save the public from Hannah's ugliness and shroud her.

"Mrs. Joe was prodigiously busy in getting the house

ready for the festivities of the day..." (16)

"Instantly afterwards, the company were seized with unspeakable consternation, owing to [Mr. Pumblechook] springing to his feet, turning round several times in an appalling spasmodic whooping-couch dance..." (21)

"The last I saw of [the convict], his head was bent over his knee

and he was working hard at his fetter, muttering impatient

imprecations at it and his leg." (15)

"So, we had our slices served out, as if we were two thousand troops on a forced march instead of a man and boy at home; and we took gulps of milk and water, with apologetic countenances, from a jug on the dresser." (16)

Hannah came home from school and was told her cat had run away, her family giving her understanding countenances.

Elle is capricious when it comes to working on projects... #bipolarprobs

Hannah is penitential for not doing work fast enough for Elle.

"Anyhow, with whitewash from the wall on my forehead, 

my obstinacy was adamantine." (51)

"...And all the high places I had tumbled from, and all the low places I had tumbled into, and all the injuries I had done myself, and all the time she had wished me in my grave, and I had contumaciously refused to go there. (21)

Hannah is contumacious.

Aaron is omnipotent. He is strong. He is powerful. He is loved.

Hannah has a tendency to get distracted in class, and Elle belileves she is not felictous for the job.

'"I expressed in pantomime the greatest astonishment." (230)