"What he has got to do is to touch things, and for us to tell him the names." "That is capital.

I had no idea teaching a language was such easy work." However, after a few more words had been said, and a method established, Roger asked no more questions; his companions being now fully occupied in gazing at the houses, the temples, and the crowd in the streets, while he himself was busy listening to the remarks of the people.
It was curious to him, to hear everyone around freely discussing them, assured that no word they said was understood.

Had he been vain, he would have felt gratified at the favorable comments passed on his personal appearance by many of the women and girls; but he put them down, entirely, to the fact that he differed more from them than did the Spaniards, and it was simply the color of his hair, and the fairness of his skin, that seemed wonderful to the Mexicans.
"Ah!" he heard one woman say to another, "I marked that tall soldier when they came into the town, this morning.

They are all grand men, and look wonderfully strong and brave with their arms and armor.

I know that such fighters as these were never heard of before; for have they not, few as they are, beaten the Tlascalans?
Who, as we all know, are good fighters, though they are little better than savages.