“Don’t believe anything of it. It is because they restrain themselves. Otherwise, they would burst into tears and throw themselves on your neck.”
NINTH.
In the evening our creole, who had been thinking, said to Paul:
"Since you are such musicians in France, your well-educated girls must all learn music?”
“Three hours of scales every day, for thirteen years, from seven to twenty; total, fourteen thousand hours.”
“They profit by it?”
“One out of eight; of the other seven, three become good hand-organs, four poor hand-or-gans.”
“I suppose for a compensation they are made to read?”
“Le Ragois, La Harpe, and other dictionaries, all sorts of little treatises of florid piety.”
“What then is your education?”