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After a while some of those folks got out and a German gentleman and his two young daughters got in. I spoke in German of one of the latter several times, but without result. Finally she said: "ICH VERSTEHE NUR DEUTCH UND ENGLISHE," or words to that effect. That is, "I don't understand any language but German and English." And sure enough, not only she but her father and sister spoke English.
Again he spoke in English and it was the voice of a well-bred Englishman that spoke: "You're either a past master at the game or raving mad. Why! the whole station is humming after you! Yet you walked out of the buffet and through the whole lot of them without turning a hair. No wonder they never spotted you!" Again I answered in German: "Ich verstehe nicht!"
Citations from Schiller refer, unless otherwise expressly indicated, to Goedeke's historico-critical edition in 15 vols. The Stuttgart Medicus So gewisz ich sein Werk verstehe, so musz er starke Dosen in Emeticis ebenso lieben als in Aestheticis, und ich moechte ihm lieber zehen Pferde als meine Frau zur Kur uebergeben. Review of 'The Robbers', 1782.
Roch looked at him in a bewildered way, and then said, "Nichts verstehe!" Roch looked at him in a bewildered way, and then said, "Nichts verstehe!" "Whar are yar gwine? Are yar a through passenger, or whar are yar gwine?" "Vel, I vish to see de country. I vil go mit you till I see von ceety vot I likes, und den I vil get out mit it!"
"Schulz?" she said interrogatively. "Nicht da," replied the woman without looking up from her rubbing. "Has he gone out?" asked Mary in English. "Verstehe nicht!" mumbled the woman. But she put down her cleaning-rag and, breathing heavily, mustered the girl with a leisurely stare. Mary repeated the question in German whereupon the woman brightened up considerably. The Herr was not at home.
After a while some of those folks got out and a German gentleman and his two young daughters got in. I spoke in German of one of the latter several times, but without result. Finally she said: "ICH VERSTEHE NUR DEUTCH UND ENGLISHE," or words to that effect. That is, "I don't understand any language but German and English." And sure enough, not only she but her father and sister spoke English.
"Oh!" said the driver, in a patronizing tone, "yar parspectin', are yar?" And so they kept up a conversation, from which Roch gleaned that the stage was bound for Anderson's Court House, S. C. Whenever the driver would ask a question he did not like to answer, he would say, "nichts verstehe," and so tided over all his difficulties. The passengers, one lady and three gentlemen besides Mrs.
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