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The Moorland Cottage

CHAPTER III
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Well, Ned! and how are the classics going on?
Fine fellow, that Virgil! Let me see, how does it begin?
'Arma, virumque cano, Trojae qui primus ab oris.' That's pretty well, I think, considering I've never opened him since I left school thirty years ago.

To be sure, I spent six hours a day at it when I was there.

Come now, I'll puzzle you.

Can you construe this?
"Infir dealis, inoak noneis; inmud eelis, inclay noneis." "To be sure I can," said Edward, with a little contempt in his tone.

"Can you do this, sir?
"Apud in is almi des ire, Mimis tres i neve require, Alo veri findit a gestis, His miseri ne ver at restis." But though Edward had made much progress, and gained three prizes, his moral training had been little attended to.


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