It is one of the marvels in the constitution of children, how much they will bear without complaining.

Parents and guardians have no right to suppose that all is well in the nursery or school-room, merely from the fact that the children do not complain.

Servants and tutors may be cruel, and children will be silent--partly, I presume, because they forget so soon.
But vengeance of a sort soon overtook Robert Bruce the younger; for the evil spirit in him, derived from no such remote ancestor as the king, would not allow him a long respite from evil-doing, even in school.

He knew Annie better than his father, that she was not likely to complain of anything, and that the only danger lay in the chance of being discovered in the deed.

One day when the master had left the room to confer with some visitor at the door, he spied Annie in the act of tying her shoe.