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Did I get the glad hand? Listen; she hadn't seen anything but Huns for nearly four years. Most of that time she'd spent hidin' in the cellar or somewhere, and for her I was the dove of peace. She tried to tell me all about it, and I expect she did, only I couldn't comprenez more'n a quarter of her rapid fire French.
Go down on your knees and pray that no telegram from Foot Brothers I mean, Legge arrives during the next five-and-twenty minutes. 'Why? 'If not, you're to takee this notee to Brother Andrew Leggee, comprenez? The boss was going to send me, but he altered his mind, worse luck. 'Twelve-thirteen? asked Hood. 'Yes. And now if you're in the mind, I'll box you for half a dollar what say?
Ah, here's another anecdote. There's an infantry regiment here in the district. I was drinking last Friday evening with the officers. We've three friends among them, vous comprenez? They were discussing atheism and I need hardly say they made short work of God. They were squealing with delight. By the way, Shatov declares that if there's to be a rising in Russia we must begin with atheism.
She grand person who make' ze tour with ze governor." "Oh, the governor makes the tour, does he?" "Oui, oui! In the old style, with a brigade of boats, and a bugler. A summer trip, vous comprenez a picnic to all ze posts in ze province. Thus it is to be a great man!" "And Mr. Ainley, what is he doing at Fort Malsun?" "Ah, M'sieu Ainley! He also is ze great man.
Armed with these arguments, which appeared to her unanswerable, she drove to her daughter's early one morning so as to find her alone. Having listened to her mother's objections, Helene smiled blandly and ironically. "But it says plainly: 'Whosoever shall marry her that is divorced..." said the old princess. "Ah, Maman, ne dites pas de betises. Vous ne comprenez rein.
Vous ne me comprenez pas non plus, men pauvre Jack!" "There is one way still, I think," said the third of the speakers in this scene. "Let Lord Highgate come to Rosebury in his own name, leaving that of Mr. Harris behind him. If Sir Barnes Newcome wants you, he can seek you there. If you will go, as go you should, and God speed you, you can go, and in your own name, too."
Gentilshommes, have de goodness to make de face to de right par file, dat is, by files. Marsh! Mais, tres bien; encore, Messieurs; il faut vous mettre a la marche. ... Marchez done, au nom de Dieu, parceque j'ai oublie le mot Anglois; mais vous etes des braves gens, et me comprenez tres bien. The Count next hastened to put the cavalry in motion. 'Gentilmans cavalry, you must fall in.
"We are saved by Christ who suffered for us. We are saved by faith," Alexey Alexandrovitch chimed in, with a glance of approval at her words. "Vous comprenez l'anglais?" asked Lidia Ivanovna, and receiving a reply in the affirmative, she got up and began looking through a shelf of books. "I want to read him 'Safe and Happy, or 'Under the Wing," she said, looking inquiringly at Karenin.
The young lady seemed as good a guesser as himself. "Oh, I am very sure that monsieur is not capricious," she said with a roguish smile. "Capricious?" And at this monsieur began to laugh. "Oh no, I'm not capricious. I am very faithful. I am very constant. Comprenez?" "Monsieur is constant; I understand perfectly. It's a rare virtue.
She is in canoe on zee river," he pointed towards the water as he spoke, and waved his hand towards the south. "She is ver' beautiful; an' I watch her for zee pleasure, vous comprenez? And anoder man he watched also. I see him, an' I see him shoot with zee gun once, twice he shoot." "You saw him shoot?"
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