the one they are educated with a view of faring well in this world,
in the other the teaching mostly bears upon matters connected with
the next. In the last-mentioned class of establishment the young
people get up early and have very little material food to eat. So
Mrs. Ingham-Baker wisely sent her daughter to the worldly school.
This astute lady knew that girls who get up very early to attend
public worship in the dim hours, and have poor meals during the day,
do not as a rule make good matches. They have no time to do their
hair properly, and are not urged so much thereto as to punctuality
at compline, or whatever the service may be. And it is thus that
the little habits are acquired, and the little habits make the
woman, therefore the little habits make the match. Quod erat
demonstrandum.

So Agatha was sent to a worldly school, where they promenaded in the
King's Road, and were taught at an early age to recognise the glance
of admiration when they saw it. They were brought up to desire nice
clothes, and to wear the same stylishly. On Sunday they wore
bonnets, and promenaded with additional enthusiasm. Their youthful
backs were straightened out by some process which the writer, not
having been educated at a girls' school, cannot be expected to
detail. They were given excellent meals at healthy hours, and the
reprehensible habits of the lark were treated with contumely. They
were given to understand that it was good to be smart always, and
even smarter at church. Religious fervour, if it ran to limpness of
dress, or form, or mind, was punishable according to law. A
wholesome spirit of competition was encouraged, not in the taking of
many prizes, the attending of many services, or the acquirement of
much Euclid, but in dress, smartness, and the accomplishments.