It was what I used to imagine when I was ten that a party here ought to be like. It was extremely gorgeous and uninane, as the band and trampling made talk impossible.

two incumbent figures, gracefully leaning upon it

Probably at the age of eleven, when he should be at school, he is driven into the workshop and a journeyman is allowed to walk the streets, because a great deal that he does can be done by the apprentice.

And he sets industriously to the task of cleaning, renovating and exploring his overgrown property with the steady uncircumspect conviction of a true handyman.