"We white girls always used to talk it, when we were together, so as not to forget it; and since the last one went, three years ago, I have always talked it to myself, for a bit, before going to sleep, so as to keep it up; but it does not come anything like so easy as the other.

Still, I like talking it to you.

It almost seems as if I were at home again.
You see, I have never heard a man talk English, since I was carried away.

Even now, I can hardly believe this is not a happy dream, and that I shall not wake up, presently, and find myself a slave girl in the harem." "It is pleasant to me to talk English, too," Dick said, "though it is only a few months since I last spoke it.

Now, the best thing you can do is to try and get off to sleep again.