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.
Op eene naburige hoogte bemerkte ik de nationale school, waar men, zooals ik later van mijn gastheer vernam, hebreeuwsch, engelsch, fransch en deensch onderwees; vier talen, waarvan ik tot mijne schande geen enkel woord kende. Ik zou de laatste geweest zijn van de veertig leerlingen, die deze kleine school telde, en onwaardig om met hen in die kasten met twee afdeelingen te slapen, waarin zwakker gestellen reeds den eersten nacht moeten stikken.