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He is only just conquering "Lapis, lapidis."'
'But you can go on with Latin and Greek, alone, as you did with
German, cannot you?' said Anne.
'I do sometimes construe a little Virgil,' said Elizabeth; 'but
Horace is his natural contemporary, and he is not happy without him.
Besides, when I have nothing to oblige me to learn regularly, I do
not know when to do it, so Dido has been waiting an unconscionable
time upon her funeral pile; for who could think of Jupiter and Venus
in the midst of all our preparations for the Consecration?'
'I am glad Helen came home in time for it,' said Anne.
'I began to think we should never see her more,' said Elizabeth;
'there was no gentleman at Dykelands to escort her, and Papa was too
busy to fetch her, till at last, Captain Atherley, Mrs. Staunton's
brother, took pity upon her, or rather on us, and brought her home.'
'Captain Atherley is the only one of the family whom I have ever
seen,' said Anne; 'I have always wished to know something more of
them, they were all such friends of Papa's and Mamma's and Aunt
Katherine's.


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