Oscar laughed.
"I wonder what Dr. Burton would say if he heard you," he said.
"Who is he?"
"Principal of our Academy. He gave me a blowing up for my ignorance to-day, because I missed an irregular Greek verb. I'm not exactly a dunce, but I don't think I shall ever be a Greek professor."
"If you speak of yourself that way, what will you think of me? I don't know a word of Latin, of Greek, or any language except my own."
"Because you have had no chance to learn. There's one language I know more about than Latin or Greek."
"English?"
"I mean French; I spent a year at a French boarding-school, three years since."
"What! Have you been in France?"
"Yes; an uncle of mine—in fact, the editor—was going over, and urged father to send me. I learned considerable French, but not much else. I can speak and understand it pretty well."