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But those who conduct the Children's Vacation Schools in London that remarkable arrangement by which children are damaged in school time and educated in holidays are aware that in a short time children of any class can be taught to "play the game," if only they can be made to see it from that point of view.
He may be able to control himself better than the others at first educated people are used to self-control but in the long run his nerves will give way sooner. Moral courage is a thing I admire more than anything, but there's no use for it in the army, in fact it's worse than useless in the army.
"His dressing-room is on my Lady's side. And in all these years I never heard the step upon the Ghost's Walk more distinct than it is to-night!" Esther's Narrative But though I liked him more and more the better I knew him, I still felt more and more how much it was to be regretted that he had been educated in no habits of application and concentration.
Then he expressed his willingness to defray all the expense which she might be, adding that though he should never see her, as he was resolved to spend his days in India, he still wished to think of her as an educated and accomplished woman. "Accompanying this letter," he wrote, "is a check for $500, to be used for Dora's benefit.
Not like Monsieur Léon; he sometimes comes at seven, or even half-past, and he doesn't so much as look at what he eats. Such a nice young man! Never speaks a rough word!" "Well, you see, there's a great difference between an educated man and an old carabineer who is now a tax-collector." Six o'clock struck. Binet came in.
And surely in our own country, where an educated public taste does not exist and the fiercest prejudices are rampant, there is abundant opportunity for service.
Peg o' your heart? Where is she at all?" "It's in London she is." "London!" "Aye. She's with an aunt o' hers bein' educated an' the like" "Is it English ye're goin' to bring her up?" cried the doctor in horror and disgust. "No, it's not, Docthor McGinnis an' ye ought to know me betther than to sit there an' ask me such a question.
I have heard of such instances." "I, on the contrary, Sophy, remember hearing my father speak of a very different case, in which a country girl was taken out of her sphere, and educated, and, I think, became the wife of one of our ministers.
Why cannot the educated American keep his speech silver and gold for educated ears? All of which is just.
To the general public the volume which followed "In the Levant" was perhaps of even deeper interest. At all events it dealt with scenes and memories with which every reader, educated or uneducated, had associations.
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