I never saw much of girls or children.

I remember no home but the Western school and the Oriental camp.

I never, as soldier or envoy, was acquainted with other men's homes.
While still beardless, I have ruled bearded soldiers by a discipline whose sanctions were the death-shot and the bastinado; and when I left the camp and court, it was for colleges where a beardless face is never seen.

I must look to you to teach me how discipline may be softened to suit feminine softness, and what milder sanction may replace the noose and the stick of the _ferash_" (Persian executioner).
"I cannot believe," Eveena answered, taking me, as usual, to the letter, "that you will ever draw the zone too tight.

We say that 'anarchy is the worst tyranny.' Laxity which leaves us to quarrel and torment each other, tenderness which encourages disorder and disobedience till they must be put down perforce, is ultimate unkindness.