That reminded me to tell him some funny things the parrot had said, and in writing them I got over my homesickness.
Eugenia has a crest on her paper, because some one of her great-great-great-grandfathers, almost back to Noah, was a lord.

But it doesn't make her remember to act like a lady.

She ought to be made to learn the lines that were in my copy-book once: "Kind hearts are more than coronets, And simple faith than Norman blood.".