"My mother had four children; but the others died in infancy."
"You look rugged as most young ladies."
"Do you mean healthy?"
"Well, yes; you have a clear complexion and rosy cheeks."
"They were extremely careful of our health at the school where I have been for the last eight years. That was the reason my father sent me there. He had heard how remarkably healthy their pupils were."
"'Twan't in this country, or you'd speak more nateral like."
"No, it was in Brussels."
"Oh, yes; in England, I suppose."
"No, on the continent of Europe; a city in Belgium, the capital."
"And you've talked a furrin tongue, then."