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Edward L. Pierce, Memoir and letters of Charles Sumner: volume 3, chapter 14 (search)
avery question, to enable him to prepare an appeal to them from their brethren in France. who was educating a number of girls in his house. At his request Martins tested them in German, which he had known well from his youth, and Sumner in English. With such examiners it was a rare day in the pastor's school. Sumner, selecting a volume of Brougham which he took from the library, read quite rapidly and without repetition a passage which his eye happened to fall upon, from a speech made May 15, 1823, in which slavery in Rome and in the West Indies was compared; The two Frenchmen were surprised that Sumner had happened on the passage, and said, There is a man consecrated to one leading idea. and the pupils, to his surprise and the teacher's gratification, copied it perfectly. Sumner spoke briefly to the girls, telling them how they could become familiar with English, so as to speak and live in it; and the pastor remarked that it would have been impossible to give this advice more