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"That was a pity," she replied. "I should have been interested to see what they were like, underneath." "I might have been disappointed," answered my father. "I agree with Dr. Florret that sometimes the mask is an improvement." Barbara was right.

Teidelmann may have clouded for a moment Barbara's sunny nature, surely there was no reason for this, seeing that no one attracted greater attention throughout the dinner than the parlour-maid. "Where ever did you get her from?" asked Mrs. Florret, Barbara having just descended the kitchen stairs. "A neat-handed Phillis," commented Dr. Florret with approval.

My dear Doctor Florret and Co., cannot you, out of the vast storehouse of really necessary knowledge, select apparatus better fitted to strengthen and not overstrain the mental muscles of ten-to-fourteen? You, gentle reader, with brain fully grown, trained by years of practice to its subtlest uses, take me from your bookshelf, say, your Browning or even your Shakespeare.

Then, without leaving off her work, 'Jim, she shouted, 'are you there? No answer came from the inner room. 'He's a goner, she said, wringing out a stocking." "But surely," said Dr. Florret, "you don't admire a woman for being indifferent to the death of her husband?" "I don't admire her for that," replied Washburn, "and I don't blame her. I didn't make the world and I'm not responsible for it.

She smiled, understanding and well pleased with my confusion. Child though I was little more than child though she was, it flattered her vanity. Fair and sweet, you had but that one fault. Would it had been another, less cruel to you yourself. "Correct" is, I think, the adjective by which I can best describe Doctor Florret and all his attributes.

Was I more stupid than the average, or is a boy's brain physically incapable of the work our educational system demands of it? "Latin and Greek" I hear repeating the suave tones of Doctor Florret, echoing as ever the solemn croak of Correctness, "are useful as mental gymnastics."

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