Clever young people are apt to think that their stupid elders have never perceived what their brilliant young wits can put straight with half-a-dozen words.

But I used to draw a little myself," continued Miss Ellen very modestly, "and I have never liked Mr.Henley's style.

But he is such a very good old man, and so poor, that my sister has shrunk from changing.

Still, of course our pupils are the first consideration, and we should have had another master if a much better one could have been got.

But Mr.Markham, who is the only other one within reach, is not so painstaking and patient with his pupils as Mr.Henley; and though his style is rather better, it is not so very superior as to lead us, on the whole, to turn poor Mr.Henley away for him.