‘I am one of the greatest readers alive,’ said Herrick. ‘I have read all European modern literature, the enormous bulk of it. And I have read as much mediaeval literature as any man living. And I know my Greek and Latin. They were taught to us well when I was a boy.’Ivy Compton-Burnett, Pastors and Masters (London: Hesperus Press, 2009; 1925), p. 95.
‘But you need not imply how they are taught now,’ said Bumpus.