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." "How I wish I had had your advantages," said Harry.

"How did you like your French schoolmates ?" "They wouldn't come near me at first.