You know it _would_ be rather good stuff--But he's taken it up." "What did you say ?" "Mere obvious nothings.

But as you see---! Takes it up with perfect gravity.

Treats the thing as an attack.

Says there is already a sufficient waste of public money in elementary schools without this.
Tells the old stories about piano lessons again--_you_ know.

No one; he says, wishes to prevent the children of the lower classes obtaining an education suited to their condition, but to give them a food of this sort will be to destroy their sense of proportion utterly.