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Then Yasmini ceased dancing. Then one of the Europeans drew his watch out; and he had to show it to the other two before he could convince them that they had sat for two hours without wanting to do anything but watch and listen. "So wass!" said one of them the drunken. "Du lieber Gott schon halb zwolf!" said the second. The third man made no remark at all. He was watching Ranjoor Singh.
"If there's anything troubling you speak right up and I'll try to straighten it out." Abe shifted his cigar in his mouth and made the plunge. "What is the use beating bushes around, Felix?" he said. "Yesterday I am giving you a fiddle, ain't it? Inside it says the fiddle is a genu-ine Amati. What? Schon gut if that fiddle is a genu-ine Amati it is worth three thousand dollars, ain't it?
He played the introductory measures, then nodded at her vehemently, and she began: When she finished, Wunsch nodded again. "SCHON," he muttered as he finished the accompaniment softly. He dropped his hands on his knees and looked up at Thea. "That is very fine, eh? There is no such beautiful melody in the world. You can take the book for one week and learn something, to pass the time.
DU BIST SO SCHON was the unuttered invocation, while the VERWEILE DOCH was deemed unneedful. Little, I am ashamed to own, did I add either to my small classical or mathematical attainments. But I made friendships lifelong friendships, that I would not barter for the best of academical prizes.
The standard chosen for the measurement of his wit escaped the Baron, the scheme delighted him. “Ha, Bonker! schön! I tvig! Goot!” he cried. “How shall ve do?” “Leave it to me.” The Baron reflected, and his smile died away. “Sopposing,” he said, slowly, “zey find out? Is it vise? Is it straight?” “They can’t find out.
He stations them at the side of the road right square in front of Old Man Wisner's house, and he tells them to play everything they knew and then play it all over again, and keep on playing. We was setting eating dinner, enjoying their music as much as we could, when the leader of the band comes in; and says he: "Mein Herr, wir sind schon ausgeblasen." "Is that so?" says Old Man Wright.
I bet yer that feller Klein spends enough on taxicab rides for customers, and also one or two of 'em which she ain't customers, as he could buy a dozen oitermobiles already. No, Abe, that ain't the point. The first year Klein and me goes as partners together, he overdraws me two hundred and fifty dollars. Schon gut.
"He's where he should have been schon long since already," he said as they sat down. "He's got a job and he's going to make good on it." "What are you talking nonsense?" Max exploded. "Where is my Sidney? His mother is pretty near crazy." "She shouldn't worry," Abe replied calmly.
"Sehr schön!" exclaimed Herr Schlitz, looking up and nodding; "you must zing zome more," and he played the first bars of Marie, am Fenster sitzest du, humming the words under his breath, and quite oblivious of any one but himself and the singer. "Zierlich," he said when the song was done, reaching for the collection of Lassen.
The moments that are evil it eternalizes; the moments that might be good it hurries to annihilation. All that is most precious is most precarious. Vainly do we cry to the moment: 'Verweile doch, du bist so schön! Only the heavy hours are heavy-footed. The winged Psyche, even at the moment of birth, is sick with the pangs of dissolution. "These, surely, are facts, not imaginations.
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