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"That little boys and girls should be tormented," said Henry, "is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny; but in behalf of our ht well be offended at being supposed to have no higher aim, and that by their method and style, they are perfectly well qualified to torment readers of the most advanced reason and mature time of life I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your ownthem to be now admitted as synonymous"

"You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used astheir letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole ether, and how tired my pooralmost every day of my life at hoht sometimes be used as synonymous words"

"Very probably But historians are not accountable for the difficulty of learning to read; and even you yourself, who do not altogether seem particularly friendly to very severe, very intense application, e that it is very orth-while to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it Consider--if reading had not been taught, Mrs Radcliffe would have written in vain--or perhaps ht not have written at all"

Catherine assented--and a very waryric from her on that lady's ed in another on which she had nothing to say They were viewing the country with the eyes of persons accusto forerness of real taste Here Catherine was quite lost She knew nothing of drawing--nothing of taste: and she listened to theht her little profit, for they talked in phrases which conveyed scarcely any idea to her The little which she could understand, however, appeared to contradict the very few notions she had entertained on the er to be taken froh hill, and that a clear blue sky was no longer a proof of a fine day She was heartily ashanorance A misplaced shanorant To come with a well-infor to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would alish to avoid A wo, should conceal it as well as she can