I was astonished at his progress.

He acquired the pronunciation in a lesson, and within a week was able to construe and converse.

By the time he left Llangollen, and he was not here in all more than two months, he understood the Welsh Bible as well as I did, and could speak Welsh so well that the Welsh, who did not know him, took him to be one of themselves, for he spoke the language with the very tone and manner of a native.

Oh, he was the cleverest man for language that I ever knew; not a word that he heard did he ever forget." "Just like Mezzofanti," said I, "the great cardinal philologist.

But whilst learning Welsh, did he not neglect his collegiate studies ?" "Well, I was rather apprehensive on that point," said the old gentleman, "but mark the event.