However, I'll give you a piece of good advice.

Get an English master, and make some progress before you got rusty.

All they teach you here will never make a clever man of you, if you happen to want to be one.

Good-night." And, turning upon his heel, he left our Anton somewhat disconcerted.
Indeed, he too, in course of time, began to be conscious of the monotony of a business life, but he did not fret about it, having been taught by his parents habits of industry and order.
Mr.Jordan took much pains to initiate him into the mysteries of divers wares; and the hours that he first spent in the warehouses, amid the varied produce of different lands, were fraught with a certain poetry of their own, as good, perhaps, as any other.

There was a large, gloomy, vaulted room on the ground floor, in which lay stores for the traffic of the day.