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Elisa asks a little 8 year old boy to guard her door with a shotgun. "Cez den budes stat tu pred mojimi dverami na strazi a kazdeho, kto by chcel vojst dnu, zadrziz. Vies ako sa to robi?"
"Och ano! Takto," maly Janko Hrasko vykrocil jednou nohou dopredu a namieril pusku bodakom vpred. "Stoj! Kto tam?"

Father thinking of his daughter "Were she a man, she would make an excellent field marshal."

"My family has a strict regime. I learned in the army that a subordinate must obey his superior."
"You're right," Garanvolgyi agreed. "However, it's quite difficult to maintain discipline at home, because in the family the women are mostly the commanders and the men are the ordinary soldiers." (p. 58. Translation from Slovak)

After the Viennese governess scolds her charge Elise, and orders her to study French, the rebellious noblewoman retorts "Why cannot I study Hungarian? That I wold gladly study."
In the mid 19th century speaking French was cool, while only rebels and plebs spoke Hungarian.

I hope the insufferable conman isn't a key character.