“I am glad to meet him. I never saw a model boy before,” said Gilbert, pleasantly.
“I never pretended to be a model boy,” said Fred. “Laura’s only chaffing.”
“Where did you pick up that word, Fred?” said his mother.
“Isn’t it a good word, mamma? It’s just what she does.”
“Fred has just commenced Latin,” said Laura, “but I am afraid, from his own story, that it is just wearing out his constitution.”
“I don’t see any good in it,” said Fred. “Do you know Latin, Mr. Greyson?”
“I have studied it some.”
“How far have you been?”
“I have read Cæsar and Virgil.”
“Oh, then you know a lot about it. I’m only in the second declension.”