This arrangement is acceptable to me, because it saves me from the misery of parting with my sister in this strange land; and is, I believe, equally gratifying to Trevelyan, whose education, like that of other Indian servants, was huddled up hastily at home; who has an insatiable thirst for knowledge of every sort; and who looks on me as little less than an oracle of wisdom.

He came to me the other morning to know whether I would advise him to keep up his Greek, which he feared he had nearly lost.

I gave him Homer, and asked him to read a page; and I found that, like most boys of any talent who had been at the Charterhouse, he was very well grounded in that language.

He read with perfect rapture, and has marched off with the book, declaring that he shall never be content till he has finished the whole.

This, you will think, is not a bad brother-in-law for a man to pick up in 22 degrees of North latitude, and 100 degrees of East longitude.
I read much, and particularly Greek; and I find that I am, in all essentials, still not a bad scholar.