She reproached herself bitterly with having given Eleanor so little training in domestic arts.

But she had been brought up by a learned uncle, who considered needlework a waste of time, and she knew as little about gores as we did.

She had also, unfortunately, known or heard of some excellent mother who had trained nine daughters to such perfection of domestic capabilities that it was boasted that they could never in after-life employ a workwoman or domestic who would know more of her business than her employer.

And this good lady was a standing trouble to poor Mrs.Arkwright's conscience.
Her self-reproaches were needless.

General training is perhaps quite as good as (if not better than) special, even for special ends.