Since then I have always been living there, till this year I came to Wales." "Patagonia!" said Cardo.

"So far away?
No wonder you dropped upon me so suddenly! But how, then, did you grow up Welsh ?" Valmai laughed merrily.
"Grow up Welsh?
Well, indeed, I don't know what have I grown up! Welsh, or English, or Spanish, or Patagonian! I am mixed of them all, I think.

Where we were living there was a large settlement of Welsh people, and my father preached to them.

But there were, too, a great many Spaniards, and many Spanish girls were my friends, and my nurse was Spanish, so I learnt to speak Welsh and Spanish; but English, only what I learnt from my father and from books.

I don't know it quite easy yet, but I am coming better every day I think.