It strikes me that you have been pretty carefully trained and taught." "Yes, I was that"-- with satisfaction.

"But don't you think, if I got on, grand people would always look down at me if they knew I'd lived so common?
And besides, I'm sometimes afraid the man that went shares at the land with father will want to find me." "But you said you told him you were coming away." "I told him, plain and honest; but I had a long way to walk till I got to the train, and I just went off.

But he won't find it so easy to fill my place, and get some one to do the housework! He'd have kept me, if he could; and if he heard where I was he might come and try to get me back by saying father said I was to obey him till I was twenty-one." "If your father said--that--" "No," cried the girl, vehemently, "he never did." "You will hear from your uncle in Scotland ?" said Sophia.
"I don't believe he'll write to me.

I don't believe he lives any more where I sent the letter.

It's years and years since father heard from him.