CHAPTER VI.
"Young man, I fear thy blood is rosy red, Thy heart is soft." D'AGUILAR'S _Fiesco_, Act iii.Sc.

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As education does not consist in reading and writing only, so Alice, while still very backward in those elementary arts, forestalled some of their maturest results in her intercourse with Maltravers.

Before the inoculation took effect, she caught knowledge in the natural way.

For the refinement of a graceful mind and a happy manner is very contagious.
And Maltravers was encouraged by her quickness in music to attempt such instruction in other studies as conversation could afford.

It is a better school than parents and masters think for: there was a time when all information was given orally; and probably the Athenians learned more from hearing Aristotle than we do from reading him.