It was, so to speak, the aristocratic quarter.

To the entertainments at these great houses the young superintendent was invited.

The young people were musical and we had musical evenings a plenty.

I heard subjects discussed which I had never known before, and I made it a rule when I heard these to learn something about them at once.

I was pleased every day to feel that I was learning something new.
It was here that I first met the Vandevort brothers, Benjamin and John.