human
I'll tell you what, Tom, you have improved in your cricket awfully, said Penryhn as they strolled back in the dusk.
gpt
Why, you took Robarts' wickets twice.
human
Yes, but I should not have done it in a game; fellows step out and hit recklessly in practice.
gpt
No matter for that; you are quite a different bowler from what you were.
human
The fact is it takes me all my time to learn to do what comes to other fellows naturally.
gpt
That's a bit too deep for me; some fellows can do one thing easily and others another, and every fellow has to work hard to learn those things which belong, as it were, to the other fellows. There are chaps, I suppose, like the Admirable Crichton, who are born good all round, and can play the fiddle, polish off Euclid, ride, shoot, lick anyone at any game, all without the slightest trouble, but one does not come across them often, thank goodness. I say, do you know what genius is?
human
Not exactly; that is, I could not define it.
gpt
Well, I have heard my father say that some very clever chap has said that it is `an infinite capacity for taking pains,' and if that's true, by Jove, you must be a genius, Tom!