Sentence:  It would be a great comfort to Mr. Weston, as he grew older—and even Mr. Weston might be growing older ten years hence—to have his fireside enlivened by the sports and the nonsense, the <WSD>freaks</WSD> and the fancies of a child never banished from home; 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A sudden causeless change or turn of the mind; a whim of fancy; a capricious prank; a vagary or caprice.