THE GOOD FRENCH GOVERNESS

MADEMOISELLE PANACHE

THE KNAPSACK






FORESTER


Forester was the son of an English gentleman, who had paid some attention
to his education, but who had some singularities of opinion, which
probably influenced him in his conduct toward his children.

Young Forester was frank, brave, and generous, but he had been taught to
dislike politeness so much, that the common forms of society appeared to
him either odious or ridiculous; his sincerity was seldom restrained by
any attention to the feelings of others. His love of independence was
carried to such an extreme, that he was inclined to prefer the life of
Robinson Crusoe in his desert island, to that of any individual in
cultivated society. His attention had been early fixed upon the follies
and vices of the higher classes of people; and his contempt for selfish
indolence was so strongly associated with the name of gentleman, that he
was disposed to choose his friends and companions from amongst his
inferiors: the inequality between the rich and the poor shocked him; his