"Are you going to school, or are you working?"
"I have been attending school."
"What did you study?"
"Latin and French, besides English studies."
Abel was surprised. He was a very ordinary scholar, and had never studied any language except his own.
"I shouldn't think such studies would do any good to a boy who has to work for a living."
"Then I suppose you have not studied them?"
"No."
"My father intended me to enter college."
"But you won't go now?"