很久以前我被我的父母置于某道森先生，在爱丁堡，谁，已取得了一类疾病治疗的声誉，特别是外科医生治疗。我被送到我到他家附近的住宿家庭教师，在旧城区。我把从优秀爱丁堡主人教训的药品，并行使我的身体不适需要。一开始是比较沉闷的离开我的兄弟姐妹，并给予我们的快乐外的门与我国的家庭生活，为沉闷的住房，只有邓肯小姐差严重的伴侣，并交流在我们的嬉闹花园，并通过在街上散步等领域的激烈散步，其中的礼仪，我有义务为配合我的帽带整齐，并把我的一些直线把披肩。
    傍晚时分最差。这是秋天，当然，他们每天越来越长：他们是够长，我相信，当我们第一次落户单调的灰色和住宿。因为，你必须知道，我的父亲和母亲并不富裕，而且是一个伟大的我们许多人，以及医疗费用由我被下道森先生的关怀，预计可产生大量放置，因此，一个伟大的点在我们的住处搜查后的经济。我的父亲，谁是真正的绅士也觉得虚假的耻辱，这已命名的廉价道森先生的必要性，并作为回报，道森先生告诉那些对他在第6克罗默街中，我们终于解决。这所房子属于一个老人，在同一时间内的青年男女为大学做准备，在他的能力已成为众所周知的道森先生导师。但是，他的学生把下降，而当我们来到他提出，我想，他的主要支持是由数了，他偶尔从中吸取教训，从让我们的房间了，一客厅开放进入床室，其中一小室领导。他的女儿是他的管家：一个儿子，而我们从来没有见过，应该是领导和我一样生活，他的父亲在他面前这样做，只是我们没有看到或听到任何学生，以及有一个勤劳，诚实的小苏格兰处女，正方形，粗短，整洁，朴素，谁可能被任何年龄在18岁至40。
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    Long ago I was placed by my parents under the medical treatment of a certain Mr. Dawson, a surgeon in Edinburgh, who had obtained a reputation for the cure of a particular class of diseases. I was sent with my governess into lodgings near his house, in the Old Town. I was to combine lessons from the excellent Edinburgh masters, with the medicines and exercises needed for my indisposition. It was at first rather dreary to leave my brothers and sisters, and to give up our merry out-of-doors life with our country home, for dull lodgings, with only poor grave Miss Duncan for a companion; and to exchange our romps in the garden and rambles through the fields for stiff walks in the streets, the decorum of which obliged me to tie my bonnet-strings neatly, and put on my shawl with some regard to straightness.
    The evenings were the worst. It was autumn, and of course they daily grew longer: they were long enough, I am sure, when we first settled down in those gray and drab lodgings. For, you must know, my father and mother were not rich, and there were a great many of us, and the medical expenses to be incurred by my being placed under Mr. Dawson's care were expected to be considerable; therefore, one great point in our search after lodgings was economy. My father, who was too true a gentleman to feel false shame, had named this necessity for cheapness to Mr. Dawson; and in return, Mr. Dawson had told him of those at No. 6 Cromer Street, in which we were finally settled. The house belonged to an old man, at one time a tutor to young men preparing for the University, in which capacity he had become known to Mr. Dawson. But his pupils had dropped off; and when we went to lodge with him, I imagine that his principal support was derived from a few occasional lessons which he gave, and from letting the rooms that we took, a drawing-room opening into a bed-room, out of which a smaller chamber led. His daughter was his housekeeper: a son, whom we never saw, supposed to be leading the same life that his father had done before him, only we never saw or heard of any pupils; and there was one hard-working, honest little Scottish maiden, square, stumpy, neat, and plain, who might have been any age from eighteen to forty.