Their voices sounded faintly to each other.

Harry, however, could still hear Jack shouting: "I say! do you know what Nell will like better than either sun, moon, or stars, after she's seen the whole of them ?" "No, Jack!" "Why, you yourself, old fellow! still you! always you!" And Jack's voice died away in a prolonged "Hurrah!" Harry, after this, applied himself diligently, during all his spare time, to the work of Nell's education.

He taught her to read and to write, and such rapid progress did she make, it might have been said that she learnt by instinct.

Never did keen intelligence more quickly triumph over utter ignorance.

It was the wonder of all beholders.
Simon and Madge became every day more and more attached to their adopted child, whose former history continued to puzzle them a good deal.