My wife wore a red dress, which made her stand out like a sore thumb.

Francis doesn’t respond to Fritz's comment. Even though Francis is the youngest like in the family, he is one of those people who had not bothered to care about what is going on. Fritz's negative opinion about families he believes to be “lower” than his family creates his first conflict with Jack.

Is this a narrative style of writing?

The dogs, who had preceded us in landing, welcomed us in a truly friendly manner, leaping playfully around us; the geese kept up a loud cackling, to which the yellow-billed ducks quacked a powerful bass.

My wife was delighted with it, and hoped I would now set out immediately to Tent House for the butter-cask.

“Don’t be uneasy about them,” said Ernest, “they will certainly meet with cocoa-nuts, as Robinson did, very different food to your wretched lobster. Think of an almond as big as my head, with a large cup full of rich milk.”

We soon heard barking and loud grunting, which proved the combat had begun, and, hoping for a good prize, we hastened forward; when, what was our vexation, when we found the dogs holding by the ears, not a wild boar, but our own great sow, whose wild and intractable disposition had induced her to leave us, and live in the woods!

A shower of stars, which concluded our experiment, made us wish the duration had been longer. It seemed as if a crowd of winged genii, carrying each a lamp, were floating about in that enchanted cavern.