‘Well!’
‘Amongst which is Mount Ararat.’
‘Well!’
‘Upon which, as the Bible informs us, the ark rested.’
‘Well!’
‘It is the language of the people of those regions - ‘
‘So you told me.’
‘And I have been reading the Bible in their language.’
‘Well!’
‘Or rather, I should say, in the ancient language of these people; from which I am told the modem Armenian differs considerably.’
‘Well!’
‘As much as the Italian from the Latin.’
‘Well!’
‘So I have been reading the Bible in ancient Armenian.’
‘You told me so before.’
‘I found it a highly difficult language.’
‘Yes.’
‘Differing widely from the languages in general with which I am acquainted.’
‘Yes.’
‘Exhibiting, however, some features in common with them.’
‘Yes.’
‘And sometimes agreeing remarkably in words with a certain strange wild speech with which I became acquainted - ‘
‘Irish?’
‘No, father, not Irish - with which I became acquainted by the greatest chance in the world.’
‘Yes.’
‘But of which I need say nothing farther at present, and which I should not have mentioned but for that fact.’
‘Well!’
‘Which I consider remarkable.’