"Here's Shakespeare," she said, "and there's 'Coriolanus.' Now, read, and discover by the feelings the reading will give you at once how low and how high you are."
"Come, then, sit near me, and correct when I mispronounce."
"I am to be the teacher then, and you my pupil?"
"Ainsi, soit-il!"
"And Shakespeare is our science, since we are going to study?"
"It appears so."
"And you are not going to be French, and sceptical, and sneering? You are not going to think it a sign of wisdom to refuse to admire?"
"I don't know."

"Here's Coriolanus," she said. "Now, read, and discover at once how low and how high you are."
"Come, then, sit near me, and correct when I mispronounce."
"I am to be the teacher then? If you are all French, and sceptical and sneering