a profound veneration for the learning he had never been able to acquire this veneration mr dick extended to the doctor whom he thought the most subtle and accomplished philosopher of any age it was long before mr dick ever spoke to him otherwise than bare headed and even when he and the doctor had struck up quite a friendship and would walk together by the hour on that side of the which was known among us as the doctor s walk mr dick would pull off his hat at intervals to show his respect for wisdom and knowledge how it ever came about that the doctor began to read out scraps of the famous dictionary in these walks i never knew perhaps he felt it all the same at first as reading to himself however it passed into a custom too and mr dick listening with a face shining with pride and pleasure in his heart of hearts believed the dictionary to be the most delightful book in the world as i think of them going up and down before those school room windows � the doctor reading with his complacent smile an occasional n the personal history a s d experience flourish of the manuscript or grave motion of his head and mr dick listening by interest with his poor wits calmly wandering god knows where upon the wings of hard words � i think of it as one of the things in a quiet way that i have ever seen i feel as if they might go walking to and fro for ever and the world might somehow be the better for it � as if a thousand things it makes a noise about were not one half so good for it or me was one of mr dick s friends very soon and in often coming to the house he made acquaintance with the friendship between himself and me increased continually and it was maintained on this odd footing that while mr dick came to look after me as my guardian he always consulted me in any little matter of doubt that arose and invariably guided himself by my advice not only having a high respect for my native sagacity but considering that i inherited a good deal from my aunt one thursday when i was about to walk with mr dick from the hotel to the coach office before going back to school for we had an s school before breakfast in the street who of the promise i had made to take tea with himself and his mother adding with a t expect you to keep it master we re so very i really had not yet been able to make up my mind whether i liked or detested him and i was very doubtful about it still as i stood looking him in the face in the street but i felt it quite an to be supposed proud and said i only wanted to be asked oh if that s all master said and it really isn t our that prevents you will you come this evening but if it is our i hope you won t mind to it master for we are well aware of our condition i said i would mention it to mr and if he approved as i had no doubt he would i would come with pleasure so at six o clock that evening which was one of the early office evenings i announced myself as ready to mother will be proud indeed he said as we walked away together or she would be proud if it wasn t sinful master yet you didn t mind supposing was proud this morning i returned oh dear no master returned oh believe me no such a thought never came into my head i shouldn t have deemed it at all proud if you had thought us too for you because we are so very have you been studying much law lately to change the subject oh master he said with an air of self denial my reading is hardly to be called study i have passed an hour or two in the evening sometimes with mr hard i suppose said i he is hard to me sometimes returned but i don t know what he might be to a gifted person after beating a little tune on his chin as we walked on with the two fore fingers of his skeleton right hand he added there are expressions you see master � latin words and terms � in mr that are trying to a reader of my would you like to be taught latin i said briskly i will teach it you with pleasure as i learn it of oh thank you master he answered shaking his head i am sure it s very kind of you to make the offer but i am much too to accept it what nonsense oh indeed you must excuse me master i am greatly obliged and i should like it of all things i assure you but i am far too there are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning learning ain t for me a person like myself had better not if he is to get on in life he must get on master i never saw his mouth so wide or the in his cheeks so deep as when he delivered himself of these sentiments shaking his head au the time and modestly i think you are wrong i said i dare say there are several things that i could teach you if you would like to learn them oh i don t doubt that master he answered not in the least but not being yourself you don t judge well perhaps for them that are i won t provoke my with knowledge thank you i m 