If her strength had not utterly failed, she must have suffered dreadfully in mind.

I studied her carefully during the first two years; then I was able to pursue my method with a good deal of confidence.

It has been my aim to give free play to all her faculties; to direct her intelligence, but never to check its growth--as is commonly done.

We know what is meant by a girl's education, as a rule; it is not so much the imparting of knowledge as the careful fostering of special ignorances.

I think I put it rightly ?" "I think so." "It is usual to say that a girl must know nothing of this and that and the other thing--these things being, in fact, the most important for her to understand.