human
Mais certainement, avec pleasure!
gpt
Has no one else a remark to make? continued this terrible girl, collapsing suddenly into English, and looking inquiringly round the table.
human
Perhaps there is some other language which you would prefer to French. It is all the same to me. I think we ought to strive to become proficient in foreign tongues. At the school where I was at Brighton there was a little girl in the fourth form who could speak and even write Greek quite admirably. It impressed me very much, for I myself knew so little of the language. And she was only six----
gpt
Six! The boys straightened themselves at that, roused into eager protest.
human
Six years old! And spoke Greek! And wrote Greek! Impossible!
gpt
I have heard her talking for half-an-hour at a time. I have known the girls in the first form ask her to help them with their exercises. She knew more than anyone in the school.
human
Then she is a human prodigy. She ought to be exhibited. Six years old! Oh, I say--that child ought to turn out something great when she grows up. What did you say her name was, by the by?
gpt
Andromeda Michaelides, she said slowly.
human
She was six last Christmas. Her father is Greek consul in Manchester.