human
Now I'll tell you what I'll do with you, sir. I am nothing but a Cheap Jack, but of late years I have laid by for a rainy day notwithstanding. This is my only daughter (adopted), and you can't produce a deafer nor a dumber. Teach her the most that can be taught her in the shortest separation that can be named,--state the figure for it,--and I am game to put the money down. I won't bate you a single farthing, sir, but I'll put down the money here and now, and I'll thankfully throw you in a pound to take it. There! The gentleman smiled, and then,
gpt
Well, well, says he,
human
I must first know what she has learned already. How do you communicate with her? Then I showed him, and she wrote in printed writing many names of things and so forth; and we held some sprightly conversation, Sophy and me, about a little story in a book which the gentleman showed her, and which she was able to read.
gpt
This is most extraordinary, says the gentleman;
human
gpt
I have been her only teacher, sir, I says,
human
gpt
Then, says the gentleman, and more acceptable words was never spoke to me,