If you'd like to try, and are of a mind for a go at Greek, we'll do our best to help you through the aorists.

It looks harder than Latin, but after a start it 's easier.
Only, I'm afraid your three-decker's apprenticeship 'll stand in your way.' 'Greek 's to be done for me; I can pay clever gentlemen for doing Greek for me,' said the captain.

'The knowledge and the love of virtue I must do for myself; and not to be wrecked, I must do it early.' 'Well, that's neither learning nor human nature,' said I.
'It's the knowledge o' the right rules for human nature, my lad.' 'Would you kidnap youngsters to serve in your ship, captain ?' 'I'd bless the wind that blew them there, foul or not, my lad.' 'And there they'd stick when you had them, captain ?' 'I'd think it was the Lord's will they should stick there awhile, my lad--yes.' 'And what of their parents ?' 'Youngsters out like gossamers on a wind, their parents are where they sow themselves, my lad.' 'I call that hard on the real parents, Captain Welsh,' said Temple.
'It's harder on Providence when parents breed that kind o' light creature, my lad.' We were all getting excited, talking our best, such as it was; the captain leaning over his side of the table, clasping his hands unintentionally preacher-like; we on our side supporting our chins on our fists, quick to be at him.

Temple was brilliant; he wanted to convert the captain, and avowed it.
'For,' said he, 'you're not like one of those tract-fellows.

You're a man we can respect, a good seaman, master of your ship, and hearty, and no mewing sanctimoniousness, and we can see and excuse your mistake as to us two; but now, there's my father at home--he's a good man, but he 's a man of the world, and reads his classics and his Bible.