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The next one spoke with a simpering precision of pronunciation that was irritating and said: "If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree. I speaky ze Angleesh pairfaitemaw."
'It is a pity, he observed casually, 'zat you are not acquaint wif ze Signor Americano who lives in Villa Rosa. He also finds Valedolmo undiverting. He comes but often to talk wif me. He has fear of forgetting how to spik Angleesh, he says. The young man opened his eyes. 'What are you talking about a Signor Americano here in Valedolmo?
It was Constance again who opened the conversation. 'Ah, Tony? 'Si, signorina? 'Did you ever read any Angleesh books or do you do most of your reading in Magyar? 'I haf read one, two, Angleesh books. 'Did you ever read er The Lightning Conductor, for example? 'No, signorina; I haf never read heem. 'I think it would interest you.
'Tony, she said, 'do you spik any language besides Angleesh? He triumphantly concealed all sign of emotion. 'Si, signorina, I spik my own language. 'Would you mind my asking what that language is? He indulged in a moment's deliberation. Italian was clearly out of the question, and French she doubtless knew better than he he deplored this polyglot education girls were receiving nowadays.
Russian, in which he was born, and French, and German, and Italian, of course, he knows, but Polish, Ruthenian, and all varieties of Ukranian speech are alike known to him. "I spik all European language good, jus' same Angleesh," was his testimony in regard to himself.
But anyway it's of no consequence; I merely asked out of idle curiosity. And Gustavo' she still held the lira 'if he asks you if I looked in this register, what are you going to say? 'I say, "No, Meestair Ailyar, she stay all ze time in ze courtyard talking wif ze parrot, and she was ver' moch shocked at his Angleesh." 'Ah! Constance smiled and laid the lira on the table.
The next one spoke with a simpering precision of pronunciation that was irritating and said: "If ze zhentlemans will to me make ze grande honneur to me rattain in hees serveece, I shall show to him every sing zat is magnifique to look upon in ze beautiful Parree. I speaky ze Angleesh pairfaitemaw."
You Angleesh are a grand nation; ve are a grand nation. Ve are fighting now. If ze sloop sail vin she vill come for me. If she lose ze capitaine vill be prisonaire, and behold encore ze fortune of war." "Sir," said my father, "it is the act of pirates to descend upon a set of peaceful people as your countrymen did last night, thanks to your playing spy." "Spy? Espion?
Now, I will give you instructions as well as I can as to what you have to do. Shall I give them in Spanish or English?" Quite gravely the Indian girl replied, "Angleesh." "Very well," said he, and proceeded to tell Manuela how to act as sick-nurse.
In ze autumn and ze spring foreigners come from all ze world Angleesh, French, German tutti! Ze Hotel du Lac is full. Every day we turn peoples away. 'So! I seem to have struck the wrong season. But about this American family, what's their name? 'La familia Veeldair from Nuovo York. 'Veeldair. He shook his head. 'That's not American, Gustavo, at least when you say it.
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