He said that to gaze upon the headsman's block in the Tower was in itself a liberal education.

As we sat together in the drawing-room--momma and poppa always preferred the sitting-room when Arthur was there--he used to gild all our future with the culture which I should acquire by actual contact with the hoary traditions of Great Britain.

He advised me earnestly to disembark at Liverpool in a receptive and appreciative, rather than a critical and antagonistic, state of mind, to endeavour to assimilate all that was worth assimilating over there, remembering that this might give me as much as I wanted to do in the time.

I remember he expressed himself rather finely about the only proper attitude for Americans visiting England being that of magnanimity, and about the claims of kinship, only once removed, to our forbearance and affection.

He put me on my guard, so to speak, about only one thing, and that was spelling.