In the matter of general culture and attainments, we youngsters stood
on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us
would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his
own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language
long rightly dead;
on pretty level ground. True, it was always happening that one of us
would be singled out at any moment, freakishly, and without regard to his
own preferences, to wrestle with the inflections of some idiotic language
long rightly dead;