“It makes you speak prop’ly.”
That was a view of education never before presented to him. Certainly the sort of education he had doled out had done little to amend the speech of his Thrigsbian pupils.
“Is that all you want—to speak properly?”
“Yes. You speak prop-properly.”
“Nothing else.”
“There is a difference between gentlemen and others. I want to have to do with gentlemen.”
“And ladies?”
“Oh! I’ll let the ladies look after theirselves.”
“Themselves.”