It is a most interesting work.

You are fond of that kind of reading ?" "To say the truth, I do not much like any other." "Indeed!" "That is, I can read poetry and plays, and things of that sort, and do not dislike travels.

But history, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.

Can you ?" "Yes, I am fond of history." "I wish I were too.

I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me.