Well, I _do_ want to know so much that it seems sometimes as if I wanted to know everything; and yet there are some things that I think I don't want to know.

But, as a general thing, everything is intensely interesting; I don't mean only everything that this French lady tells me, but everything I see and hear for myself.

I feel really as if I should gain all I desire.
I meet a great many Americans, who, as a general thing, I must say, are not as polite to me as the people over here.

The people over here--especially the gentlemen--are much more what I should call _attentive_.

I don't know whether Americans are more _sincere_; I haven't yet made up my mind about that.