"Ah! that's good, that's good. But, you see, the best hand in the world'll not get you a better place than a copying-clerk's, if you know nothing of bookkeeping,–nothing of accounts. And a copying-clerk's a cheap article. But what have you been learning at school, then?"
Mr. Deane had not occupied himself with methods of education, and had no precise conception of what went forward in expensive schools.