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"I will soon explain to what these feelings tended, but allow me

now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such

various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which

all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors

(for so I loved, in an innocent, half-painful self-deceit, to

call them)."

Chapter 14

"Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends. It

was one which could not fail to impress itself deeply on my mind,

unfolding as it did a number of circumstances, each interesting

and wonderful to one so utterly inexperienced as I was.