In, the first place, I saw plainly that aid in no shape was to be expected from Madame: her righteous plan was to maintain an unbroken popularity with the pupils, at any and every cost of justice or comfort to the teachers.

For a teacher to seek her alliance in any crisis of insubordination was equivalent to securing her own expulsion.

In intercourse with her pupils, Madame only took to herself what was pleasant, amiable, and recommendatory; rigidly requiring of her lieutenants sufficiency for every annoying crisis, where to act with adequate promptitude was to be unpopular.

Thus, I must look only to myself.
Imprimis--it was clear as the day that this swinish multitude were not to be driven by force.

They were to be humoured, borne with very patiently: a courteous though sedate manner impressed them; a very rare flash of raillery did good.