Wani had been wet about the game until he turned out to be good at it, and now he was absorbed and unironical, tripping after the ball, yapping and grinning when he bombed the other boules away from the jack-ball, or cochonnet.

...the hag-like Rose, abrupt flouter of authority and motherer of naughty old girls...

cross marriages, as when a brother and sister marry persons standing in the same relation to each other

Try both these maneuvers until you have them cold and can do them in the dark without thinking.