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She stared at hearing that we knew only the word ja, for it made our presence in Germany unaccountable. 'The most dangerous word of all, said Colonel Goodwin, and begged us always to repeat after it the negative nein for an antidote. 'You have both seen my father? I whispered to Miss Goodwin; 'both? We have been separated. Do tell me everything. Don't look at the stage-they speak such nonsense.
It hovered in the air above, high and pure and sweet. The face of the young countess bent lower; a look of tenderness waited in her subtle eyes. He sprang to his feet, his hands outstretched to ward it off. "Nein. It is not I. It is the music. You shall not be bewitched!" His hands made swift passes, as if he would banish a spell. She caught them to her and waited.
They had sat in silence for the greater part of an hour, when Beale's tap on the door brought the reader round with narrow eyes. "Expecting a visitor, professor?" he asked in German. "Nein, nein," rambled the old man, "who shall visit me? Ah yes" he tapped his fat forefinger "I remember, the Fräulein was to call." He got up and, shuffling to the door, slipped back the bolt and turned it.
"Bring me a plate!" "Oh, say, Adolph, make my order a chop instead of those ham and eggs." "Yah!" "And, Adolph." "Yes, sir." "I want a glass of milk, with a squirt of vichy in it. Don't forget." "Nein, I vunt!" "And speed up, Adolph, we're all in a hurry." "Shure. You vos allvays in a hurry!" The German waiter scurried away.
The African thinks this god has great power if he would only exert it, and when things go very badly with him, when the river rises higher than usual and sweeps away his home and his plantations; when the smallpox stalks through the land, and day and night the corpses float down the river past him, and he finds them jammed among his canoes that are tied to the beach, and choking up his fish traps; and then when at last the death-wail over its victims goes up night and day from his own village, he will rise up and call upon this great god in a terror maddened by despair, that he may hear and restrain the evil workings of these lesser devils; but he evidently finds, as Peer Gynt says, "Nein, er hort nicht.
Rollo knew that nein was the German word for no, and he presumed that the language of his fellow-traveller was German. So he pointed to the steeple, and asked, "Was ist das?" This phrase, Was ist das? is the German of What is that? Rollo knew very little of German, but he had learned this question long before, having had occasion to ask it a great many times.
"I could not speak to you for two days because auntie, that is, Miss Husted, was watching," said Jenny, laying the cloth. Poons nodded and smiled. "She was watching," said Jenny, but he made no sign. "Verstay? Verstay?" she repeated, making her little stock of German go as far as she could. "Nein! Ich " said Poons hopelessly.
Speak to me no more; I'm dangerous. 'But, Dirk but, Hatteraick, hear me only a few words. 'Hagel! nein. 'Only one sentence. 'Tousand curses! nein. 'At least get up, for an obstinate Dutch brute! said Glossin, losing his temper and pushing Hatteraick with his foot. 'Donner and blitzen! said Hatteraick, springing up and grappling with him; 'you WILL have it then?
The orator threw his chest forwards and gazing fearlessly at the assembly cried in a stentorian voice: "Sind sie zufrieden mit ihrer Chairman?" His audacity made an impression. The discontented cowered timidly in their places. "Yes," rolled back from the assembly, proud of its English monosyllables. "Nein," cried a solitary voice from the topmost gallery.
We could borrow a trap this afternoon " "Nein, nein!" interrupted the Baron. "Donnerwetter! Ach, no, it most not be so soon. I most practise a leetle first. Not so immediately, Bonker." Bunker looked at him with a glance of unfathomable calm. "I find that it will be necessary for you to observe one or two ancient ceremonies, associated from time immemorial with the accession of a Tulliwuddle.
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