Here I continued till I was between seventeen and eighteen years old, and here I had all the advantages for my education that could be imagined; the lady had masters home to the house to teach her daughters to dance, and to speak French, and to write, and other to teach them music; and I was always with them, I learned as fast as they; and though the masters were not appointed to teach me, yet I learned by imitation and inquiry all that they learned by instruction and direction; so that, in short, I learned to dance and speak French as well as any of them, and to sing much better, for I had a better voice than any of them.
Là, je continuai jusqu'à ce que j'eusse entre dix-sept et dix-huit ans, et j'y trouvai tous les avantages d'éducation qu'on peut s'imaginer; cette dame avait des maîtres qui venaient pour enseigner à ses filles à danser, à parler français et à écrire, et d'autres pour leur enseigner la musique; et, comme j'étais toujours avec elles, j'apprenais aussi vite qu'elles; et quoique les maîtres ne fussent pas appointés pour m'enseigner, cependant j'apprenais par imitation et questions tout ce qu'elles apprenaient par instruction et direction.