I don't know much of Slavonian; but--" "What is Slavonian, brother ?" "The family name of certain nations, the principal of which is the Russian, and from which the word slave is originally derived.

You have heard of the Russians, Jasper ?" "Yes, brother; and seen some.

I saw their crallis at the time of the peace; he was not a bad-looking man for a Russian." "By the bye, Jasper, I'm half inclined to think that crallis is a Slavish word.

I saw something like it in a lil called 'Voltaire's Life of Charles.' How you should have come by such names and words is to me incomprehensible." "You seem posed, brother." "I really know very little about you, Jasper." "Very little indeed, brother.

We know very little about ourselves; and you know nothing, save what we have told you; and we have now and then told you things about us which are not exactly true, simply to make a fool of you, brother.