I never did have that high-toned notion.

'Twa'n't so long since I was a fo'mast hand.
"So Effie told me a lot about herself.

Seems she'd been over to the Cattle Show at Ostable one year, and she was loaded to the gunwale with some more or less facts that a fortune-tellin' specimen by the name of the 'Marvelous Oriental Seer' had handed her in exchange for a quarter.
"'Yup,' says she, bobbin' her head so emphatic that the sky-blue ribbon pennants on her black hair flapped like a loose tops'l in a gale of wind.

'Yup,' says she, 'I b'lieve it just as much as I b'lieve anything.
How could I help it when he told me so much that has come true already?
He said I'd seen trouble, and the dear land knows that's so! and that I might see more, and I cal'late that's pretty average likely.

And he said I hadn't been brought up in luxury--' "'Which wa'n't no exaggeration neither,' I put in, thinkin' of the shack over on the Neck Road where she and her folks used to live.
"'No,' says she; 'and he told me I'd always had longin's for better and higher things and that my intellectuals was above my station.