"How far have you been in arithmetic?"
"Through the square and cube root?"
"If you have been so far, you will have no difficulty with algebra. As to Latin, one of the girls wishes to take up that and I will put you in the class with her."
It will be seen that Harry was growing ambitious. He didn't expect to go to college, though nothing would have pleased him better; but he felt that some knowledge of a foreign language could do him no harm. Franklin, whom he had taken as his great exemplar, didn't go to college; yet he made himself one of the foremost scientific men of the age and acquired enduring reputation, not only as a statesman and a patriot, but chiefly as a philosopher.
A little later, Leonard Morgan came round to the desk at which Harry was sitting.
"I brought a Latin grammar with me," he said, "thinking it probable some one might like to begin that language. You can use it until yours comes."
"Thank you," said Harry; and he eagerly took the book, and asked to have a lesson set, which was done.
"I can get more than that," he said.
"How much more?"
"Twice as much."