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Quabarl, but INTERESTED in what they learn. In
their history lessons, for instance, you must try to.
make them feel that they are being introduced to the
life-stories of men and women who really lived,not
merely committing a mass of names and dates to
memory. French, of course, I shall expect you to talk
at meal-times several days in the week."
“I shall talk French four days of the week and
Russian in the remaining three”
“Russian? My dear Miss Hope, no one in the house speaks or understands Russian”
“That will not embarrass me in the least, "said
Lady Carlotta coldly.
Mrs Quabarl, to use a colloquial expression, was
knocked off her perch. She was one of those
imperfectly self-assured individuals who are
magnificent and autocratic as long as they are not
seriously opposed. The least show of unexpected
resistance goes a long way towards rendering them
cowed and apologetic. When the new governess
failed to express wondering admiration of the large
newly-purchased and expensive car, and lightly
alluded to the superior advantages of one or two
makes which had just been put on the market, the
discomfiture of her patroness became almost abject.
Her feelings were those which might have animated a
general of ancient warfaring days, on beholding his
heaviest battle-elephant ignominiously driven off the
field by slingers and javelin throwers.
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