The Bookshelf for boys and girls Historic Tales and Golden Deeds part 3 (1912)
University Society, New York · New York : University Society · leaf 60
politeness class,when we were not only taught to behavemannerly, but made to give examples of howto do it! Oh, that awful moment when, withalmost one hundred pairs of eyes—and laugh-ing eyes—fixed upon me, I had to get up andpractise dropping a curtsy or picking up ahandkerchief. I have never… … those times, and were set to work by a touchof the whip, if necessary. Now, in the nobler houses there were oftentroops of these youngsters, and you can im- ago—that is, in an age when we have a way of agine that it was not the easiest thing in the thinking people were shocking barbarians be- world…
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