For we had conquered, and Teacher was pleased.
Getting a language in this way, word by word, has a charm that may be set against the disadvantages.

It is like gathering a posy blossom by blossom.

Bring the bouquet into your chamber, and these nasturtiums stand for the whole flaming carnival of them tumbling over the fence out there; these yellow pansies recall the velvet crescent of color glowing under the bay window; this spray of honeysuckle smells like the wind-tossed masses of it on the porch, ripe and bee-laden; the whole garden in a glass tumbler.

So it is with one who gathers words, loving them.

Particular words remain associated with important occasions in the learner's mind.