“I found it a highly difficult language.”
“Yes.”
“Differing widely from the languages in general with which I am acquainted.”
“Yes.”
“Exhibiting, however, some features in common with them.”
“Yes.”
“And sometimes agreeing remarkably in words with a certain strange wild speech with which I became acquainted—”
“Irish?”
“No, father, not Irish—with which I became acquainted by the greatest chance in the world.”
“Yes.”