How long his study had lasted I have no notion, but he knew less of our tongue than she of his, and to get the linseed was no easy matter.

Ten years passed and recollection of the Arnheim chemist had clean evaporated; but chancing to look up as we walked through the town, the sight of the old chemist seated in his shop-window poring over a book brought the whole incident back to her.

We stepped to the window and stole a glance at the volume: it was an English Grammar.

He had been studying it ever since the night of the linseed poultice.
It was, we felt, an object-lesson to us, who during the same interval had taken advantage of every opportunity of neglecting the Dutch tongue.
That tongue, however, is not attractive.

Even those who have spoken it to most purpose do not always admire it.