By this means I had, as I have said above, all the advantages of education that I could have had if I had been as much a gentlewoman as they were with whom I lived; and in some things I had the advantage of my ladies, though they were my superiors; but they were all the gifts of nature, and which all their fortunes could not furnish.
Par ces moyens j'eus, comme j'ai dit, tous les avantages d'éducation que j'aurais pu avoir, si j'avais été autant demoiselle de qualité que l'étaient celles avec qui je vivais, et, en quelques points, j'avais l'avantage sur mesdemoiselles, bien qu'elles fussent mes supérieures: en ce que tous mes dons étaient de nature et que toutes leurs fortunes n'eussent pu fournir.