"
"You find her boys, at any rate, pupils worth teaching."
"More than that. Of course it is something to have a fellow capable
of ideas before one; but besides that, lads who had gone on
contentedly at their own level have had to bestir themselves not to
be taken down by him. When he refused to have it forced upon him
that study was not the thing at Kenminster, they found the only way
to make him know his place was to keep theirs, and some of them have
really found the use of their wits, and rejoice in them. Even in the
lower form, the Colonel's second boy has developed an intellect.
Then the way those boys bring their work prepared has raised the
standard!"
"I heard something of that on my way."
"You did?"
"Yes; two ladies were in full career of talk when the train stopped
at the Junction, and I heard-—'I am always obliged to spend one hour
every evening seeing that Arthur knows his lessons. So troublesome
you know; but since that Mrs. Joseph Brownlow has come, she helps her
boys so with their home-work that the others have not a chance if one
does not look to it oneself.' Then it appeared that she told Mr.
Ogilvie it wasn't fair, and that he would give her no redress."
"Absurd woman! It is not a matter of unfairness, as I told her.
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