On a neighbouring hill I perceived the national school, where, as I was informed later by our host, were taught Hebrew, English, French, and Danish, four languages of which, with shame I confess it, I don't know a single word; after an examination I should have had to stand last of the forty scholars educated at this little college, and I should have been held unworthy to sleep along with them in one of those little double closets, where more delicate youths would have died of suffocation the very first night.
Sur une éminence voisine, j'aperçus l'École Nationale, où, comme je l'appris plus tard de notre hôte, on professait: l'hébreu, l'anglais, le français et le danois, quatre langues dont, à ma honte, je ne connaissais pas le premier mot. J'aurais été le dernier des quarante élèves que comptait ce petit collège, et indigne de coucher avec eux dans ces armoires à deux compartiments où de plus délicats étoufferaient dès la première nuit.