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The most serious of these plots, in March, 1887, led to the arrest of all the conspirators. In the mean time there had appeared the first definite Marxian Social Democratic group in Russia. Plechanov, Vera Zasulich, Leo Deutsch, and other Russian revolutionists in Switzerland formed the organization known as the Group for the Emancipation of Labor.
“Prosit!” responded the Baron, enthusiastically. “You know ze Deutsch, sare?” “I am safer in English, I confess.” “Ach, das ist goot, I vant for to practeese. Ve vill talk English.” “With all my heart,” said the stranger. “I, too, am alone, and I hold myself more than fortunate in making your acquaintance.
He reached the Eiffel Tower in 9 minutes and, through miscalculating his turn, only just missed colliding with it. He got No. 6 under control again and succeeded in getting back to his starting-point in 29 1/2 minutes, thus winning the 125,000 francs which constituted the Deutsch Prize, together with a similar sum granted to him by the Brazilian Government for the exploit.
Berlin-Breslau was soon added, but the first route opened remained most popular, 538 flights being made between its opening and the end of April, while for March and April combined, the Hamburg-Berlin route recorded only 262 flights. All three routes were operated by a combine of German aeronautical firms entitled the Deutsch Luft Rederie.
This was a simplification of the conditions of the Deutsch Prize itself, the winning of which involved a journey of 11 kilometres in 30 minutes.
Something told Terence Reardon that Michael was through; so he added his mite to the store and bellowed: "Spreckels die deutsch, ye blackguards?" Then both sat back to await developments. Presently a voice at the foot of the companion said: "Hello dere! Vat iss?" "Vat iss? Hell iss! Dot's vat! Listen to me, you Dutchy.
He rose to his feet, clicked his heels together and saluted. But I ... hear ... it ... is ... your mother ... who is the owner ... from long time, and you are her daughter newly arrived from England? Nicht wahr? Sie verstehen nicht Deutsch, gnädiges Fraulein?" "No," said Vivie, "I don't speak much German, and fortunately you speak such perfect English that it is not necessary."
“Goot, goot!” he cried. “Ach, yah, zo.” “Am I right, sir, in supposing that, despite the perfection of your English accent, I cannot be fortunate enough to claim you as a countryman?” asked the stranger. He unburdened his heart with a rush. “You have ze right. I am Deutsch. I have gom to England zis day for to lairn and to amuse myself.
Thanks in part to the vigorous propaganda of such leaders as Plechanov, Deutsch, Bourtzev, Tseretelli, Kerensky, and many others, and in part to the instinctive good sense of the masses, support of the war by Socialists of all shades and factions except the extreme Bolsheviki and the so-called "Internationalist" sections of Mensheviki and Socialist-Revolutionists became general.
In the original the poet speaks of meeting in dreams a fair-eyed maiden who greeted him "auf Deutsch" and kissed him "auf Deutsch," but the translations all evade the kiss in German.
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