As regarded himself, he was eminently right; and he could apply it to boys also, to all young people--the unlaunched, he called them.

He counted himself among the launched, no doubt, and had breasted seas; but the boy was alive, a trencherman lad, in the coming schoolmaster, and told him profitable facts concerning his condition; besides throwing a luminous ray on the arcane of our elusive youthful.

If they have no stout zest for eating, put Query against them.
His customary enjoyment of dinner convinced Mr.Weyburn that he had not brooded morbidly over his phantom Browny, and could meet Aminta, Countess of Ormont, on the next occasion with the sentiments proper to a common official.

Did she not set him a commendable example?
He admired her for not concealing her disdain of the aspirant schoolmaster, quite comprehending, by sympathy, why the woman should reproach the girl who had worshipped heroes, if this was a full-grown specimen; and the reply of the shamed girl, that in her ignorance she could not know better.

He spared the girl, but he laughed at the woman he commended, laughed at himself.
Aminta's humour was being stirred about the same time.