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Lelechka suddenly glanced toward her mother's corner and screamed with joy. "I've found 'oo," she cried out loudly and joyously, mispronouncing her words in a way that again made her mother happy.
It may be highly satisfactory to schoolteachers to succeed in making their class read aloud passages from Shakespeare and Milton without dropping more than fifty per cent. of the aspirates, or mispronouncing more than half a dozen multi-syllabic words.
The ministers returned this fixed and perfunctory gaze with pale, set faces, only feebly masking the emotions which each new name stirred somewhere among them. The Bishop droned on laboriously, mispronouncing words and repeating himself as if he were reading a catalogue of unfamiliar seeds. "First church of Tecumseh Brother Abram G. Tisdale!" There was no doubt about it!
When he suddenly realized that he was using a word for the first time, and probably mispronouncing it, he would become as much confused as if he were trying to pass a lead dollar, would blush and stammer and let some one finish his sentence for him. Claude couldn't resist occasionally dropping in at the Erlichs' in the afternoon; then the boys were away, and he could have Mrs.
"Did you get along all right at the Old Ladies' Home?" "Oh, fine. The girls sang beautifully, and I read the Bible lesson without mispronouncing a single word. Did the boys miss me at the Hollow?" "Yes, they said they needed you worse than the old ladies. Maybe they were right. We must save your Sunday afternoons for them after this. They do need you." "Did you have supper with the Baldwins?"
The old man muttered some reply, and Panshin continued in German, mispronouncing the words "Lisaveta Mihalovna showed me the religious cantata you dedicated to her a beautiful thing! Pray, do not suppose that I cannot appreciate serious music quite the contrary: it is tedious sometimes, but then it is very elevating."
She was a great favorite with her mates, being good-tempered and possessing the happy art of pleasing without effort. Her little airs and graces were much admired, so were her accomplishments, for besides her drawing, she could play twelve tunes, crochet, and read French without mispronouncing more than two-thirds of the words.
"How does one get in, since you keep your door locked?" he added. "Well," I replied, with a smile, "as a rule, one knocks." To that his only reply was: "Your name?" I gave it to him. He looked on his paper, repeated it mispronouncing it, of course, and evidently sure that I did not know how to pronounce it myself. "Foreigner," he stated. I could not deny the charge.
I was bled with cupping-glasses, took medicine, and lived on panada; but in two or three days I was well again. The physicians thought, or said at least, that the evil was from the stomach. It is very certain that I have seemed to speak with an impediment, and I was, or it might be fancied myself, troubled with a mispronouncing and hesitation.
The boarders dropped in one after another, interchanging greetings and empty jokes that certain classes of Parisians regard as humorous and witty. Dulness is their prevailing ingredient, and the whole point consists in mispronouncing a word or a gesture. This kind of argot is always changing.
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