I was born here, and I like it." "But you have not always lived here ?" "No; my mother, who had lived in the city, placed me at school in her own country, in Dijon.

I received there the education of a young lady, though there is not much to show for it now.

I stayed there six years; then my mother died, my father fell ill, and I came home." "And did you not suffer from so sudden a change ?" "Not at all.

You see I am really by nature a country girl.

I wish you might not have more trouble than I had, in getting accustomed to your new way of living, in the chateau at Vivey.