He's almost as simple as his father, and that is to say that any rogue will cheat him; and he seems to me to have got your obstinate habit of telling the truth, Colonel, which may prevet his getting on in the world, but on the other hand will keep him from going very wrong.

So that, though there is every fear for him, there's some hope and some consolation." "What do you think of his Latin and Greek ?" asks the Colonel.

Before going out to his party, Newcome had laid a deep scheme with Binnie, and it had been agreed that the latter should examine the young fellow in his humanities.
"Wall," cries the Scot, "I find that the lad knows as much about Greek and Latin as I knew myself when I was eighteen years of age." "My dear Binnie, is it possible?
You, the best scholar in all India!" "And which amounted to exactly nothing.

He has acquired in five years, and by the admirable seestem purshood at your public schools, just about as much knowledge of the ancient languages as he could get by three months' application at home.

Mind ye, I don't say he would apply; it is most probable he would do no such thing.