You are a child--there is my hope.

You shall be taught--yes, yes! Your obstinacy shall be overcome; you shall be made to see your own good!" "And who is to be so kind as to take charge of my education ?" Miriam asked, without looking at him, in an idly contemptuous tone.
"Why not old Mallard ?" cried Reuben, breaking suddenly into jest.

"The tutorship of children is in his line." Miriam showed herself offended.
"Please don't speak of me.

I am willing to hear what you purpose for yourself, but don't mix my name with it." Elgar resumed the tone of ambition.

Whether he had in truth definite literary schemes could not be gathered from the rhetoric on which he was borne.