If only females knew how necessary it is, for their sakes, to be able to give a lesson now and then! Ladies are positively opposed.

And Judges too, who dress so like them.

The manhood of our country is kept down, in consequence.

Mr.
Durance was right, when he said something about the state of war being wanted to weld our races together: and yet we are always praying for the state of peace, which causes cracks and gaps among us! Was that what he meant by illogical?
It seemed to Skepsey--oddly, considering his inferior estimate of the value of the fair sex--that a young woman with whom he had recently made acquaintance; and who was in Brighton now, upon missionary work; a member of the 'Army,' an officer of advancing rank, Matilda Pridden, by name; was nearer to the secret of the right course of conduct for individual citizens and the entire country than any gentleman he knew.
Yes, nearer to it than his master was! Thinking of Mr.Victor Radnor, Skepsey fetched a sigh.

He had knocked at his master's door at the office one day, and imagining the call to enter, had done so, and had seen a thing he could not expunge.