And you haven't got an idea how rare that animal is.

Dear me! Should I be plainer to you if I called him a Christian gentleman?
It's the cant of a detestable school, my child.

It means just this--but why should I disturb your future faith in it?
The professors mainly profess to be 'a comfort to young women,' and I suppose you will meet your comfort, and worship them with the 'growing mind;' and I must confess that they bait it rather cunningly; nothing else would bite.

They catch almost all the raw boys who have anything in them.

But for me, Merthyr himself would have been caught long ago.