Schiller once wrote this poem in his collection The Gods of Greece:
When you still ruled the beautiful world,
Leading that happy generation with gentle joy,
Graceful deities of the mythic world.
You were still worshipped then, so glorious,
How great the change compared with now!
Then, your temples were still adorned with garlands.
Georgiana received an enthusiastic welcome at the Imperial Academy of Arts and Sciences, where she also enjoyed a lavish luncheon in the academy dining hall.
Usually, she was the one preparing feasts at Hogwarts. She rather enjoyed cooking, but she did not mind eating a ready-made meal either, and she spent a very pleasant afternoon there.
Lannes had once spent 200,000 Francs on a Sèvres dinner set to furnish his new home. While chatting with Headmaster Needham, she wondered whether they could allocate a sum from the porcelain factory each year to establish a scholarship. She also quite liked the interpreting student accompanying them.
Brussels was currently predominantly French-speaking, but its courts also heard cases in Dutch and German. When court was in session, a good interpreter not only had to speak multiple languages but also possess specialist knowledge relevant to legal and arbitration cases. Many technical terms were involved, including legal, technical, and industry-specific terminology. Interpreters had to be familiar with all of them to translate quickly and accurately.
Georgiana and Headmaster Needham both spoke English, so they had no need for an interpreter. However, there were teachers of other languages at the school, and his simultaneous interpretation satisfied every one of them.
Feilier spoke many languages, but she did not know much about specialized terminology. If not for certain special reasons, Georgiana would have liked to send Feilier here for two years and take this boy in exchange.
It was not until the tour