13/23 You will go up -- I see it in your face -- you will go up, like you go up these rocks; it is pretty steep, but you know, vere one person cannot stand, anozer will mount. And what will you do wiz yourself when you get to de top ?" "I don't know yet, sir," Winthrop said laughing. "What thing a man may wish to make himself, no matter what, he should fit himself for some ozer thing. Or else, he may be just one thing -- he might be poet, or mathematicien, or musicien maybe, -- and not be a whole _man_. You understand ?" "Very well, sir." "I did not know no more what I would be, when I first went to de Universite of Halle I have been to seven Universites." Winthrop looked at him, as if to see whether he were cased in sevenfold learning. |