He was surprised, too, to learn that cows could be made draught animals.

He had always thought of them as good for nothing but giving milk.

In fact I found myself so much wiser than he was in the things we had been discussing that when he began to talk to me about Virginia and the impossibility of our going together as we had been doing, it marked quite a change in our relationship--he having been the scholar and I the teacher.
"Quite a strange meeting," said he, "between you and Miss Royall." "Yes," said I, thinking it over, from that first wolf-hunted approach to my camp to our yesterday of clouds and sunshine; "I never had anything like it happen to me." "Mrs.Thorndyke," said he, "is a mighty smart woman.

She knows what'll do, and what won't do better than--than any of us." I wasn't ready to admit this, and therefore said nothing.
"Don't you think so ?" he asked.
"I do' know," I said, a little sullenly.
"A girl," said he, "has a pretty hard time in life if she loses her reputation." Again I made no reply.
"You are just two thoughtless children," said he; "aren't you now ?" "She's nothing," said I, "but a little innocent child!" "Now that's so," said he, "that's so; but after all she's old enough so that evil things might be thought of her--evil things might be said; and there'd be no answer to them, no answer.

Why, she's a woman grown--a woman grown; and as for you, you're getting a beard.