Chapter 134: Expensive Lessons

Expensive Lessons For a cultivated man to be ignorant of foreign languages is a great inconvenience. Vorotov became acutely conscious of it when, after taking his degree, he began upon a piece of research work. “It’s awful,” he said, breathing hard (although he was only twenty-six he was fat, heavy, and suffered from shortness of breath). “It’s awful! Without languages I’m like a bird without wings. I might just as well give up the work.” And he made up his mind at all costs to overc…