the only other person displeased by the situation was sipho , but as he had retreated into the solace of his studies , temeraire selfishly did not mind that : it was a great satisfaction to him at last to have someone who might read the analects to him aloud , correctly ; if sipho happened to find a character which he did not yet know , he would scratch it out large and temeraire could give it to him , which served very well .