"My eyes are big, but there are better than mine at seeing far.

Only I heard singing in the house." "That was Miss Grant," said I, "the eldest and the bonniest." "They say they are all beautiful," said she.
"They think the same of you, Miss Drummond," I replied, "and were all crowding to the window to observe you." "It is a pity about my being so blind," said she, "or I might have seen them too.

And you were in the house?
You must have been having the fine time with the fine music and the pretty ladies." "There is just where you are wrong," said I; "for I was as uncouth as a sea-fish upon the brae of a mountain.

The truth is that I am better fitted to go about with rudas men than pretty ladies." "Well, I would think so too, at all events!" said she, at which we both of us laughed.
"It is a strange thing, now," said I."I am not the least afraid with you, yet I could have run from the Miss Grants.

And I was afraid of your cousin too." "O, I think any man will be afraid of her," she cried.