But the muddle and waste of it all drives me crazy--you know I always was a managing creature.
'But one thing is certain--that he is a most excellent scholar.
I knew I had got rusty, but I didn't know how rusty till I came to work for him.

He has a wonderful memory--seems to know every Greek author by heart--and a most delicate and unerring taste.

I thought I should find a mere dabbler--an amateur.

And it takes all I know to do the drudgery work he gives me.

And then he is always coming down upon me.