For the last three months there has been but little teaching between us; we have talked, and that has been all, save that for a short time each day you read and wrote.
But there has been little to teach.

You speak the native language now as fluently as I do, and would pass anywhere as a Syrian, especially as there are slight differences of speech in the various provinces.

I believe that in Syria you would not be suspected of being anything but a native, and assuredly you would be taken for a Syrian elsewhere.
You have learnt enough, and it would be but a waste of time for you, a knight and a soldier, to spend another day in study." On the following day Gervaise was, to his surprise, sent for by the grand master.

Except on the occasion of a few public ceremonies, he had not seen D'Aubusson since he had been elected to his present high dignity, and the summons to attend at the palace therefore came unexpectedly.
"We have become quite strangers, Tresham," the grand master said cordially when he entered.

"I have not forgotten you, and have several times questioned your bailiff concerning you.