Your voice is good, if you will allow me to say so, and it has been trained.

I do not quite understand how you can have had the opportunity to learn so many things--music, for instance." "I suppose, Mr.Outram, you think that I should be a sort of savage by rights; but as a matter of fact, although we have lived on the Zambesi, I have had some chances.

There is always a certain amount of trade on the river, by means of which we often obtain books and other things, and are brought into occasional contact with European merchants, travellers, and missionaries.

Then my father is a gently born and well-educated man, though circumstances have caused him to spend his life in these wild places.

He was a scholar in his day and he has taught me a good deal, and I have picked up more by reading.