"Do you know, Mr.Allan, that you are, with one exception, the first Englishman that I have known out of a book.

I suppose that I must seem very wild and savage to you, but I have had one advantage--a good education.

My father has taught me everything, and perhaps I know some things that you don't.

I can read French and German, for instance.

I think that my father's first idea was to let me run wild altogether, but he gave it up." "And don't you wish to go into the world ?" I asked.
"Sometimes," she said, "when I get lonely.