With us the children of good families are almost always brought up at home.

They learn to dance and to fence, but have no other exercise for their limbs, and they lack the air of manly independence which struck me in English boys.

They are more gentil--I do not know the word in your language which expresses it--they carry themselves better; they are not so rough; they are more polite.

There are advantages in both systems, but for myself I like yours much the best.

My brother is, to some extent, a convert to my view.