"But I'm afraid that when Elsie has learnt geography, say, the position of Schleswig-Holstein and Roumania and Leeds, and other such places to which we should never dream of going, she might look down on you for only knowing the towns on the great railways of Europe and America, and the steamer routes of the world." "She might.

But I don't think she's like that, though, of course, with a girl you never can tell.

I think it's more likely she would want to teach me where they are.

But she ought to be educated, and I must chance it." "Well, if you ought, you must," said Sir Tancred.

"But one thing I do beg of you; do not have her taught the piano--the barrel-organ if you like, but not the piano." "No; I won't.