I am three-and-twenty next March, and yet I have never been to a university, nor to a school for that matter.

I am as complete an ignoramus as any of these clodhoppers.
It seems strange to you, no doubt, and yet it is so.

Now, don't you think I deserve a better fate ?" He stopped as he spoke, and faced round to me, throwing his palms forward in appeal.
As I looked at him, with the sun shining upon his face, he certainly did seem a strange bird to be cooped up in such a cage.

Tall and muscular, with a keen, dark face, and sharp, finely cut features, he might have stepped out of a canvas of Murillo or Velasquez.

There were latent energy and power in his firm-set mouth, his square eyebrows, and the whole pose of his elastic, well-knit figure.
"There is the learning to be got from books and the learning to be got from experience," said I sententiously.