“No; English was not known.”
“How did they talk, then?”
“You haven’t forgotten the few words Bernard recited from one of Cicero’s orations?”
“No.”
“That was Latin, the language that was spoken at that time.”
“It’s the most foolish kind of gibberish I ever heard. There ain’t no language like English.”
“I prefer it myself to any other.”
“I should say so. I heard two Frenchmen jabbering the other day, shrugging their shoulders and waving their arms like windmills. It seemed awfully foolish.”
“They think their language much finer than English.”
“Then, they must be fools,” said Amos Sanderson scornfully. “Why, it made me think of monkeys, by hokey, it did!”