পাতা:দর্শন দীপিকা.djvu/১৭১

[ ১১৪ ] phenomenon was, I was at a loss to account for. It could not have proceeded from a bashfulness in him, for I have seen him in public meetings deliver long and animated English speeches without the least faultering. Was it then that he understood not the letter well enough to explain it to another. Not even for the whole world I would credit such a thing. I have been bred up and educated in the same College, and seen him explain the most difficult works, write the best essays and for years retaining with glory, his position as the first student. Impossible! This could never be the case. My friend had by this time gone over more than a half of the paper, and it was then I found where the screw was loose. Young Bengal was deficient in his native language, so much so that it was next to impossibility in him to render even his thoughts in pure Bengalee. The work was finished with great difficulty, the Baboo complimented and thanked us for our trouble. We took our leave, silently came déwn the stairs, and it was not till in the streets that we looked at each othero face. “We have been put to great shame this morning,” said, I, “how is it friend, that t you are ‘so poor in Bengalee,”