Armenian conjugations have their anomalies; one species of these I
wish to bring before your notice. As old Villotte says--from whose
work I first contrived to pick up the rudiments of Armenian--'Est
verborum transitivorum, quorum infinitivus--' but I forgot, you
don't understand Latin. He says there are certain transitive
verbs, whose infinitive is in outsaniel; the preterite in outsi;
the imperative in one; for example--parghatsout-saniem, I irritate-
-"

"You do, you do," said Belle; "and it will be better for both of
us, if you leave off doing so."

"You would hardly believe, Belle," said I, "that the Armenian is in
some respects closely connected with the Irish, but so it is; for
example, that word parghatsout-saniem is evidently derived from the
same root as feargaim, which, in Irish, is as much as to say I
vex."

"You do, indeed," said Belle, sobbing.

"But how do you account for it?"

"O man, man!" said Belle, bursting into tears, "for what purpose do
you ask a poor ignorant girl such a question, unless it be to vex
and irritate her? If you wish to display your learning, do so to
the wise and instructed, and not to me, who can scarcely read or
write. Oh, leave off your nonsense; yet I know you will not do so,
for it is the breath of your nostrils! I could have wished we
should have parted in kindness, but you will not permit it. I have
deserved better at your hands than such treatment. The whole time