1 | My new teacher is a very gentle person. | |
2 | Zoikes, how I try to be more mild-mannered and easy-going! | |
3 | But mild regret and an appeal to pragmatism are a step forward. | |
4 | The powerful combination of gentility and brashness she acknowledges comes her way by genetics. | |
5 | But my father was an elegant, decent man -- eloquent and elegant, decent man. |