My opportunities have been small.

I left a very ordinary school at fourteen, and what knowledge I have since got has come from my own efforts.

I am sure the profit from our intercourse would be entirely on my side.

I have the wish to go in for many things, however,--" "Oh," broke in the other, "don't suppose that I am a scholar in any sense of the word, or a man of more than average culture.

My own regular education came to an end pretty much at the same age, and only a certain stubbornness has forced me into an intellectual life, if you can call it so.