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"In accordance with the spirit of this address, the teacher of German at a public school would be forced to call his pupil's attention to thousands of details, and with the absolute certainty of good taste, to forbid their using such words and expressions, for instance, as: 'beanspruchen, 'vereinnahmen, 'einer Sache Rechnung tragen, 'die Initiative ergreifen, 'selbstverständlich, etc., cum tædio in infinitum.
Petersburg necessarily imperfect and superficial, but I trust not altogether destitute of amusing features. On a pleasant morning in August, I called for my "rechnung" at the German gasthaus on the Wasseli-Ostrow. The bill was complicated in proportion to its length. There was an extra charge of fifteen kopeks a day for the room over and above the amount originally specified.
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