can never be sufficiently thankful to my guardian for doing so.'

'I dare say;--I dare say. French and German are very useful. I
have a prejudice of my own in favour of Greek and Latin.'

'But I rather fancy I picked up more Greek and Latin at Bonn than
I should have got here, had I stuck to nothing else.'

'I dare say;--I dare say. You may be an Admirable Crichton for
what I know.'

'I have not intended to make any boast, sir, but simply to
vindicate those who had the care of my education. If you have
no objection except that founded on my birth, which is an
accident--'

'When one man is a peer and another a ploughman, that is an
accident. One doesn't find fault with the ploughman, but one
doesn't ask him to dinner.'

'But my accident,' said Lopez smiling, 'is one which you would
hardly discover unless you were told. Had I called myself Talbot
you would not know but that I was as good an Englishman as
yourself.'

'A man of course may be taken in by falsehoods,' said the lawyer.

'If your have no other objection than that raised, I hope you
will allow me to visit in Manchester Square.'