I am sure he encouraged it in us as boys.

How many a time have we mourned over the dead body of Julius Caesar, and to _be'd_ and not _to_ _be'd_, in this very room, for his amusement?
And I am sure, _my_ _name_ _was_ _Norval_, every evening of my life through one Christmas holidays." "It was a very different thing.

You must see the difference yourself.

My father wished us, as schoolboys, to speak well, but he would never wish his grown-up daughters to be acting plays.

His sense of decorum is strict." "I know all that," said Tom, displeased.