It was through intercourse with this family that I first realized the indescribable yet immeasurable gulf that separates the highly educated from people like myself.

But "the wee drap o' Scotch bluid atween us" proved its potency as usual.
Miss Addison became an ideal friend because she undertook to improve the rough diamond, if it were indeed a diamond at all.

She was my best friend, because my severest critic.

I began to pay strict attention to my language, and to the English classics, which I now read with great avidity.

I began also to notice how much better it was to be gentle in tone and manner, polite and courteous to all--in short, better behaved.