'It began with the coins,' she said vaguely. 'He said we would study history with them.'
'And did you?'
'Yes, ma'am.'
'How did you manage it? or how did he? He has original ways of doing things.'
'Yes, ma'am. We used to take only one or two of the coins at once, and then Pitt told me what to read.'
'What did he tell you to read?'
'A great many different books, at different times.'
'But tell Mrs. Dallas what books, Esther,' her father put in.
'There were so many, papa. Gibbon's History, and Plutarch's Lives, and
Rollin, and Vertot and Hume, and I—forget some of them.'
'How much of all these did you really read, Esther?'