"Of course one expects to begin on
child-stories, but I would like something more interesting now."
"Can't expect stirring romance and wild adventure without men,
can you?" I asked. Nothing irritated Terry more than to have us
assume that there were no men; but there were no signs of them
in the books they gave us, or the pictures.
"Shut up!" he growled. "What infernal nonsense you talk!
I'm going to ask 'em outright--we know enough now."
In truth we had been using our best efforts to master the
language, and were able to read fluently and to discuss what we
read with considerable ease.
That afternoon we were all sitting together on the roof--we
three and the tutors gathered about a table, no guards about. We
had been made to understand some time earlier that if we would
agree to do no violence they would withdraw their constant
attendance, and we promised most willingly.
So there we sat, at ease; all in similar dress; our hair, by now,
as long as theirs, only our beards to distinguish us.
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