Her desire to meet the critical English ladies with a towering reputation in one department of human enterprise was comprehensible, considering the natural apprehensiveness of the half-wild girl before such a meeting.

As it often happens with the silly phrases of simple people, the wrong word, foolish although it was, went to the heart of the hearer and threw a more charitable light than ridicule on her.

So that they may know I can do something they cannot do, was the interpretation.

It showed her deep knowledge of her poorness in laying bare the fact.
Anxious to cheer her, he said: 'Come, come, you can dance.

You dance well, mother has told me, and she was a judge.