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Leases as long as my arm, I calkerlate?" "Vell, dey do dink, in Charmany, dat de longer might be de lease, de better it might be for de denant." As that was purely a German sentiment, or at least not an American sentiment, according to the notions broached by statesmen among ourselves, I made it as Dutch as possible by garnishing it well with d's. "That's a droll idee!
"Vrom Charmany; vrom Preussen, vere did reign so late de good Koenig Wilhelm." "What does he say, Molly?" So the pretty creature bore the name of Mary! I liked the Molly, too; it was a good sign, as none but the truly respectable dare use such familiar appellations in these ambitious times. Molly sounded as if these people had the aplomb of position and conscious breeding.
"Why did the old fellow, then, try so hard to get that little room all to himself, and shove you off into the garret? We hired men don't like the garret, which is a hot place in summer." "In Charmany one man hast ever one bed," I answered, anxious to get rid of the subject.
In my coontry, efery mans isht obliget to be a soldier some time, and them t'at knows Latin can be made sergeants and corporals." "That is Prussia, is it?" "Ya Preussen, vere so late did reign de goot Koenig Wilhelm." "And is Latin much understood among you? I have heard that, in Hungary, most well-informed persons even speak the tongue." "In Charmany it isht not so.
"Dis ist charmin' day, frients," said uncle Ro, placing himself coolly on a log of wood that had been hauled for the stove, and wiping his brow. "Vat might you calls dis coontry?" "Dis here?" answered Yop, not without a little contempt. "Dis is York Colony; where you come from to ask sich a question?" "Charmany. Dat ist far off, but a goot coontry; ant dis ist goot coontry too."
Is that to be borne in a free country? They'd hardly stand that in Jarmany, I'm thinkin'. A man that is such an aristocrat us to refuse to sell anything, I despise." "Veil, dey stand to der laws in Charmany, and broperty is respected in most coontries. You vouldn't do away wid der rights of broperty, if you mights, I hopes?"
Have you any knowledge of Greek?" "Certainly Greek is moch study in Charmany." 'In for a penny, in for a pound, I thought. "And the modern languages do you understand any of them?" "I speaks de five great tongues of Europe, more ast less well; and I read dem all, easily." "The five tongues!" said the clergyman, counting on his fingers; "what can they be, Mary?"
"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."
"I coomes from Charmany, und I goes into der kerch, as dey say in mine coontry; what might be callet meetin'-us, here." What might have followed, it is not easy to say, had not the loud, declamatory voice of the lecturer just then been heard, as he commenced his address.
I bounced a little, as "one has one-half of a bed" would be nearer to the truth, though the other half might be in another room. "Oh! that's it, is't? Wa-a-l, every country has its ways, I s'pose. Jarmany is a desp'ate aristocratic land, I take it." "Ja; dere ist moch of de old feudal law, and feudal coostum still remaining in Charmany." "Landlords a plenty, I guess, if the truth was known.
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