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"YOU are ruining the children, my dear Sir William," said my gentle mother, one day when I had been particularly witty; "and the Abbe Montreuil declares it absolutely necessary that they should go to school."
"To school! " said my uncle, who was caressing his right leg, as it lay over his left knee, -- "to school, Madam! you are joking. What for, pray?"