Yet I do not suppose that D'Aubusson selected him for this duty as a reward for so much self denial and study, but because by that self denial and study he is more fitted for it than any of us here, save some three or four knights in the other langues, all of whom are in too high a position to be employed in so unimportant a duty.

He can speak Turkish--not a few score of words and sentences such as I can, but, as Suleiman Ali tells me, like a native.

Were one of us chosen for this mission, it would be necessary to send an interpreter with him; and every one knows how hard it is to do business in that manner.

It seems to me that the grand master has acted wisely in putting aside all question of seniority, and employing the knight who is better suited than any other for it." "You are right, Boswell," the bailiff said.

"I really have been astonished at the manner in which Tresham has given himself up to study.
It would have been a natural thing had he, after gaining so much credit, been anxious and eager to gain more.