We were to go to the best _pension_ and receive a thorough secular education.

My father's ambition, after several years' sojourn in enlightened circles, reached even beyond the _pension_; but that was flying farther than Polotzk could follow him with the naked eye.
I do not remember our first teacher.

When our second teacher came we were already able to read continuous passages.

Reb' Lebe was no great scholar.

Great scholars would not waste their learning on mere girls.
Reb' Lebe knew enough to teach girls Hebrew.