I thought first that you had acquired your way of breathing the vowels from some of the northern colleges; but it cannot be so with the quantities.

What I was going to ask was, if your instructor in the classics could possibly have been an Oxford or Cambridge man ?' 'Yes; he was an Oxford man--Fellow of St.Cyprian's.' 'Really ?' 'Oh yes; there's no doubt about it.
'The oddest thing ever I heard of!' said Mr.Swancourt, starting with astonishment.

'That the pupil of such a man----' 'The best and cleverest man in England!' cried Stephen enthusiastically.
'That the pupil of such a man should pronounce Latin in the way you pronounce it beats all I ever heard.

How long did he instruct you ?' 'Four years.' 'Four years!' 'It is not so strange when I explain,' Stephen hastened to say.

'It was done in this way--by letter.