Avis stopped in his tracks and wheeled around, thinking something had gone wrong—a moment of rubatosis.

[…] she no sooner set eyes on him than she sent me out; which argufy’d no good, you'll say;

The sun imparts warmth.

No matter how rude or incivil the existing habits of behavior, in other words, if the creature was in fact a human being, then he/she was necessarily endowed with a soul and thus with a capacity of understanding at least sufficient to absorb and retain Europe's instruction.