” said Maggie, “ut tigris ——”
“Oh yes, now I can do,” said Tom; “it was tigris, vulpes, I’d forgotten: ut tigris, volupes; et Piscium.”
With some further stammering and repetition, Tom got through the next few lines.
“Now, then,” he said, “the next is what I’ve just learned for to-morrow. Give me hold of the book a minute.”
After some whispered gabbling, assisted by the beating of his fist on the table, Tom returned the book.
“Mascula nomina in a,” he began.
“No, Tom,” said Maggie, “that doesn’t come next. It’s Nomen non creskens Manchester City Trikot genittivo ——”
“Creskens genittivo!“ exclaimed Tom, England Trikot with a derisive laugh, for Tom had learned this omitted passage for his yesterday’s lesson, and a young gentleman does not require an intimate or extensive acquaintance with Latin before he can feel the pitiable absurdity of a false quantity. “Creskens genittivo! What a little silly you are, Maggie!”
“Well, you Maillot Irlande needn’t laugh, Tom, for you didn’t remember it at all. I’m sure it’s spelt so; how was I to know?”
“Phee-e-e-h! I told you girls couldn’t learn Latin. It’s Nomen non crescens genitivo.”
“Very well, then,” said Maggie, pouting. I can say that as well as you can. And you don’t mind your stops. For you ought to stop twice as long at a semicolon as you do at a comma, and you make the longest stops where there ought to be no stop at all.”
“Oh, well, don’t chatter. Let me go on.”
They were presently fetched Vincent Kompany Trikot to spend the rest of the evening in the drawing-room, and Maggie became so Bayern Trikot animated with Mr. Stelling, who, she felt sure, admired her cleverness, that Tom was rather amazed and alarmed at her audacity. But she was suddenly subdued by Mr. Stelling’s alluding to a little girl of whom he had heard that she once ran Maillot Clubs away to the gypsies.
“What a very odd little girl that must be!” said Mrs. Stelling, meaning to be playful; but a playfulness Memphis Koszulka that turned on her supposed oddity was not at all to Maggie’s taste. She feared that Mr. Stelling, after all, did not think much of her, and went to bed in rather Ilkay Gundogan Drakt low spirits. Mrs. Stelling, she felt, looked at her as if she thought her hair was Maillot Juventus very ugly because it hung down straight behind.
Nevertheless it was a very happy fortnight to Maggie, this visit to Tom. She was allowed to be in the study while he had his lessons, and in Atletico Madrid Drakt her various readings got very deep into the examples in the Latin Grammar. The astronomer who hated women generally caused Hamburger SV Drakt her so much puzzling speculation that she one day asked Mr. Stelling if all astronomers hated women, or whether it was only this particular astronomer. But forestalling his answer, she said —
“I suppose it’s all astronomers; because, you know, they live up in high towers, and if the women came there they might talk and hinder them from looking at the stars.”
Mr. Stelling Tyskland Drakt Barn liked her prattle immensely, and they were on the best terms. She told Tom she should like to go to school to Mr. Stelling, as he did,links:
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