The child bloomed into a perfect beauty, possessed a charming voice, could perform with extraordinary skill on the piano, and seemed to have inherited the mind of her father, whose praises have been sung in all the land.
"When this child was seventeen years of age my wife died.

This girl remained in our house.

I was yet a young man.

Now that my wife was gone, attending to this girl fell entirely into my hands.

I undertook her education.