Eleanor is more impatient than I am on such subjects.

I who have been trained in more than one school myself, am sorry for those who have never known the higher teaching.

Eleanor thinks that modesty, delicacy of mind and taste, and uprightness in word and deed, are innate in worthy characters.

Where she finds them absent, she is apt to dilate her nostrils, and say, in that low, emphatic voice which is her excited tone, "There are some things that you cannot _put into_ anybody!" and so turn her back for ever on the offender.

Or, as she once said to a friend of the boys, who was staying with us, in the heat of argument, "I supposed that honourable men, like poets, are born, not made." I, indeed, do believe these qualities to be in great measure inherited; but I believe them also to come of training, and to be more easily lost than Eleanor will allow.