She's very well brought up, and her manners are very refined--don't you think so ?--and yet she's just as simple and natural as a country girl.

There's a great deal in education after all, isn't there ?" he went on confidentially, "and although"-- he lowered his voice and looked cautiously around him--"I believe that some of us here don't fancy her mother much, there's no doubt that Mrs.Randolph knows how to bring up her children.

Some people think that kind of education is all artificial, and don't believe in it, but I do!" With the consciousness that she was running away from these people and the shameful disclosure she had heard last night--with the recollection of Adele's scandalous interpretation of her most innocent actions and her sudden and complete revulsion against all that she had previously admired in that household, to hear this man who had seemed to her a living protest against their ideas and principles, now expressing them and holding them up for emulation, almost took her breath away.
"I suppose that means you intend to fix Major Randolph's well for him ?" she said dryly.
"Yes," he returned without noticing her manner; "and I think I can find that water again.

I've been studying it up all night, and do you know what I'm going to do?
I am going to make the earthquake that lost it help me to find it again." He paused, and looked at her with a smile and a return of his former enthusiasm.

"Do you remember the crack in the adobe field that stopped you yesterday ?" "Yes," said the girl, with a slight shiver.
"I told you then that the same crack was a split in the rock outcrop further up the plain, and was deeper.