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"Ach, but I am sorry! And him so happy yesterday and dancing the best in the room," and her pleasant face clouded sympathetically. "Meg, I'll go up to your room for a minute and finish my hair," said Hennie Penny. "I ran out just as I was " "It was very kind of you," said Charles Svendt, and the general sympathy seemed to comfort him somewhat.
Kriele has a pretty Anecdote, with names and particulars, of two poor Lieutenants, who were lying on the floor, as he entered this hut. They had lain there for many hours; the Surgeons thinking them desperate; which Friedrich did not. "ACH KINDER, Alas, children, you are badly wounded, then?" "JA, your Majesty: but how goes the Battle?" Have you been let blood?"
"Ho, ho," he shouted, "give us betther measure a little more of it the same tongue never was your own friend, nor the friend of any one else ha, ha, ho, ho, ho. There, that's one take it out o' that, will you? whoo, hoo hello, hach, ach! This for White-head, and this for Mary M' "
"Ach! what will the Belgians do when they hear the tales that are told of our German troops in Belgium? You don't believe these stories of German brutalities, do you?" he said anxiously, conciliatory. But I did, and I told him so.
Of course I did, as I had a perfect right to, to bring about what I did, the confession of these knaves; and but that Brandt annoyed me with his insistence to search my tent I should have told him then. As it was, I let that fool Brietmann search, knowing that he would be frightened when he opened the box. Ach, you brave men! And then, Dick, Herr Sydney, if you wish?
She made a step as though to shield her husband's sister from the cantankerous old man. "If I hear another word of argument in this house tonight " she threatened. "Mr. Reinhardt, what are these people here for?" The musician awoke, with a sigh, from his dazzled contemplation of his host's sister, and looked about him. "Ach, yes! Ach, yes!" he admitted.
I was trembling lest he should make intimate inquiries, but beyond asking my name, and whether I was a Christian, he did not concern himself with personal questions. "Vat vages do you vant?" he asked. I told him I should be pleased to take whatever was paid to other girls doing work of the same kind. "Ach no! Dese girls are full-timers.
The Sea-Maiden There was once a poor old fisherman, and one year he was not getting much fish. On a day of days, while he was fishing, there rose a sea-maiden at the side of his boat, and she asked him, "Are you getting much fish?" The old man answered and said, "Not I." "What reward would you give me for sending plenty of fish to you?" "Ach!" said the old man, "I have not much to spare."
Jiminy pats, Mom, girls are delicate, can't stand a little wettin'." "You just wait, Phil," Amanda called to him as she ran up-stairs, "you're gettin' some good wettin' yet. I ain't done with you." "Cracky, who's afraid?" he called. A little later the girl appeared in dry clothes. "Ach," she said, "I forgot to wash my hands.
So earnestly did she try to speak as her teacher taught her that after a time the peculiar idioms and expressions became more infrequent and there was only a delightfully quaint inflection, an occasional phrase, to betray her Pennsylvania Dutch parentage. But in times of stress or excitement she invariably slipped back into the old way and prefaced her exclamations with an expressive "Ach!"
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