My granddaughter is a strange being, sir, as you have perhaps observed--" "That reminds me," I interrupted, "that I wish you to relate her history to me.

She is, as you say, strange, and has speech and faculties unlike ours, which shows that she comes of a different race." "No, no, her faculties are not different from ours.

They are sharper, that is all.

It pleases the All-Powerful to give more to some than to others.

Not all the fingers on the hand are alike.