. . "In the same style, he ran along with a volubility which baffled all attempts to restrain it; and as no one could reply to him in that vein, he had the conversation mostly to himself. ??Do not wonder,?? cried he, ??that I am so profoundly versed in sacred and profane writers: you shall hear by and by how I attained my learning.?? They wished to know how matters stood with him, where he had been; bu" . .