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This then was how Stephen conquered yet another kingdom, and at seventeen was not only athlete but student. Three years under Puddle's ingenious tuition, and the girl was as proud of her brains as of her muscles -- a trifle too proud, she was growing conceited, she was growing self-satisfied, arrogant even, and Sir Philip must tease her: "Ask Stephen, she'll tell us. Stephen, what's that reference to Adeimantus, something about a mind fixed on true being -- doesn't it come in Euripides, somewhere? Oh, no, I'm forgetting, of course it's Plato; really my Greek is disgracefully rusty! " Then Stephen would know that Sir Philip was laughing at her, but very kindly.
In spite of her newly acquired book learning, Stephen still talked quite often to Raftery. He was now ten years old and had grown much in wisdom himself, so he listened with care and attention.