"Oh, I attended especially to her music. Mademoiselle Gerard can teach her the rest, as well as I can."
"So then, you have taken Nanette in order to have her brought up by Mademoiselle Gerard?"
"No, mamma; but I thought Nanette would be able to learn what I wanted to teach her."
"And because she does not learn what you want to teach her, you do not think it worth while to teach her what she can learn: to do for her, at least, all that is in your power."
"But still, mamma, it is, I think, a lucky thing for Nanette that we have taken her, and I certainly shall always take care of her; but you must allow that there is no very great pleasure in teaching a little girl to read and sew, when it is evident that she can learn nothing more than that."
"To agree with you, I must first know precisely what kind of pleasure you expected when you took charge of Nanette?"
"The pleasure of being useful to her, by giving her a good education."
"And supposing her incapable of profiting by what you call a good education, you would not care to be useful to her by giving her at least such an education as she is capable of receiving."
"At all events, this would not give me so much pleasure."