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It was the one family habit that he had contracted from Vance, much to the irritation of the latter. "After all," said Terry, with complacency, "what are good looks with bad grammar?" Elizabeth snorted literally and most unfemininely. "Terence," she said, lessoning him with her bony, long forefinger, "you're just young enough to be wise about women. When you're a little older, you'll get sense.
Now that's one of the finest jokes I ever heard. A man who can't get anyone to publish his own books makes a living by telling other people how to write! 'But it's a confounded swindle! 'Oh, I don't know. He's capable of correcting the grammar of "literary aspirants," and as for recommending to publishers well, anyone can recommend, I suppose. Reardon's indignation yielded to laughter.
The moment would come when there would be a class sitting round a table waiting for her to speak. She imagined one of the rooms at the old school, full of scornful girls.... How was English taught? How did you begin? English grammar... in German? Her heart beat in her throat. She had never thought of that... the rules of English grammar?
Good heavens! and the world still believes in education, in teaching people the "grammar of art." Education should be confined to clerks, and it drives even them to drink. Will the world learn that we never learn anything that we did not know before?
But we are not moving. We desired, if possible, admission into some respectable German family, where we should be forced to speak German, and in which our society, if I may so express it, would be some compensation for our bad grammar.
I'll wait and see how the idea strikes me to-morrow." "Oh, I guess you're fixed, all right, Harry," grunted Dan when the Grammar School boys had filed out of the Hazelton house. "But oh, poor me!" "And now, see here, fellows, we want to get around into the stores before we lose any more time," suggested Dick.
"No, no, dear friend," he said; "but this greeting is a little wonderful to me. Except my mother, years ago, nobody has ever cared whether I came or went." "More fools they," Poppy answered, with a fine disregard of grammar. "But all that's over now. You know it's over. All the same I can't be altogether sorry it was so, because it gives me my chance. Sit down; I'll expound to you. Let us talk.
And when at last she drew a long breath, and gave her verdict in a hurried whisper, and without the slightest regard to grammar "It's the loveliest thing as I never saw in all my life before!" the little fellow looked as well pleased as if it had been given by all the judges and juries in England put together. "And did you really do it all by yourself, Bruno?" said Sylvie. "And all for me?"
"I can hardly consider it masquerading, as I merely resumed the dress I wore for many years; and I certainly speak Mahratti vastly better than I speak English for, although I improved a good deal while I was here, I am conscious that, though my grammar may be correct, my pronunciation differs a good deal from that of my comrades."
His Majesty, the King, gave directions to establish a competent number of free schools in the different parishes, to be under the control of the Executive, but the project was strenuously opposed by the Roman Catholic clergy, and only grammar schools in Montreal and Quebec were provided for, which have languished and died.
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