But all this is no reason against Harry's going out there.

You don't suppose that the French people are going to fly at the throats of the nobility.
Why, even in the heat of the civil war here there was no instance of any personal wrong being done to the families of those engaged in the struggle, and in only two or three cases, after repeated risings, were any even of the leaders executed.
"No; Harry will be just as safe there as he would be here.

As to the distance, it's nothing like so far as if he went to India, for example.

I don't see any great chance of his setting the Thames on fire at home.

His school report is always the same--'Conduct fair; progress in study moderate'-- which means, as I take it, that he just scrapes along.