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"Sprechen sie Deutsch?" responded the smoker, opening his eye a little wider, and taking the pipe from his mouth. "Speak English, you fool," bawled Mr. Jorrocks. "I'll run you through the gizzard!" rejoined Mr. Jorrocks, half drawing his sword, "skin you alive, in fact!" when in rushed the Countess and threw herself between them.
And for this reason Leo Deutsch, one of the founders of the Marxian Social Democracy, has publicly withdrawn from the party, as being too little patriotic for his views and not insisting on final victory.
The Bishop, who had been about to enter, stopped, and ran back with the most respectful bows and curtseys to the sedan-chair, giving his hand to the lady who stepped thence. "Who on earth is this?" asks Mrs. Lambert. "Sprechen sie Deutsch? Ja, meinherr. Nichts verstand," says the waggish Colonel. "Pooh, Martin." "Well, if you can't understand High Dutch, my love, how can I help it?
There are other similar instances as in the case of "xystus," "prothyrum," "telamones," and some others of the sort. Deutsch. Arch. Inst. Prothyron. 7. All this, however, I have not set forth for the purpose of changing the usual terminology or language, but I have thought that it should be explained so that it may be known to scholars.
The German text books that came in Gard's way proved the national craze for what was Deutsch, echt Deutsch, to the exclusion of what was not. It was almost a ferocity of inbreeding instruction. It created the furor Teutonicus. The Hohenzollerns used education as a prod to madden the Germans.
One of the active members of the revolutionary party, Leo Deutsch, who has since published his Memoirs, relates how the tide of revolution ebbed rapidly at this time. "Both in Russia and abroad," he says, "I had seen how the earlier enthusiasm had given way to scepticism; men had lost faith, though many of them would not allow that it was so.
"And I said: 'Sprichst du Deutsch? very loud as we passed," was Donoghue's story. "And he answered as loud as he could: 'Nichts! Nichts! And I said: 'Zwei Bier, and of course the Americans took us for Germans.
She is pretty, though, and as deutsch as her ancestors were a century or two ago, when they left the Rhineland and crossed the sea. A pure blonde German type. Tacitus would have included her among the Non-Suevi." Their attention had been drawn from the scenery by the approach of a young woman and a little boy.
I have heard some of them talk vigorous sense yea, I have been present at polyglot discussions in the old, oak-lined dining-room at Hunsden Wood, where a singular insight was given of the sentiments entertained by resolute minds respecting old northern despotisms, and old southern superstitions: also, I have heard much twaddle, enounced chiefly in French and Deutsch, but let that pass.
T. H. Bastin, of Clapham, has been engaged for many years on a machine which should imitate bird flight as nearly as this may be practicable. Baron Bradsky aims at a navigable balloon on an ambitious scale. M. Tatin is another candidate for the Deutsch prize. Of Dr. Barton's air ship more is looked for, as being designed for the War Office.
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