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to detect any inconsistency, and his memory covered the full amount of all that I had said since he had come to have command of the language.
For some time we conversed together every day, I talking or writing, and he using the blackboard. As print was too slow for practical use, I taught him to write shorthand. One day he made some inquiry of me concerning the novel I happened to have in hand, and I read him several chapters of it. His
