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"I tell you, Grunzebach, or whatever your name may be," returned Miller, a little angrily, though a particularly good-natured man in the main, "that my gal shall not visit old Steven's da'ghters." "Vell, I'm sure she might do as she bleases; but I dinks der Mademoiselles Littlepage might do ast dey pleases, too."
"If der landlordt hast a right to coome and dake as many chickens as he bleases, und ast often ast he bleases, den dat wouldt look like a feudal right; but if de lease says dat so many chickens moost be paid a-year, for der rent, vhy dat ist all der same as baying so much moneys; und it might be easier for der tenant to bay in chicken ast it might be to bay in der silver.
"Und vhat dost you say? und vid whom dost you talk, as might do dem moch goot?" "Why, you see, I talks more with one 'Squire Newcome, as they calls him, though he's no more of a real 'squire than you be only a sort of an attorney, like, such as they has in this country. You come from the old countries, I believe?" "Ja, ja dat ist, yes we comes from Charmany; so you can say vhat you bleases."
Vhen a man canst bay his debts in vhat he makes himself, he ist ferry interpentent." "It does seem so, I vow! Yet there's folks about here, and some at Albany, that call it feudal for a man to have to carry a pair of fowls to the landlord's office, and the landlord an aristocrat for asking it!" "But der man canst sent a poy, or a gal, or a nigger, wid his fowls, if he bleases?"
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