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Jack seemed an acute and entertaining representative of Jonathan, come to look at his great water-privilege. He told us all about the Americanisms of the spectacle; that is to say, the battles that have been fought here. It seems strange that men could fight in such a place; but no temple can still the personal griefs and strifes in the breasts of its visiters.
Most of these people are wearing ashida, high wooden clogs perilous to the balance, which raise them as on stilts above the street level and add to the fantastical appearance of these silent shuffling multitudes. The snow falls, covering the city's meannesses, its vulgar apings of Americanisms, its crude advertisements.
They have no creed, believing that every one should be left free to hold such opinions on religious subjects as he pleases, without being held accountable for the same to any human authority Bartlett's Americanisms. "Well, friend, thee has spoken thy words out of season tonight," I said. "Peradventure I was wrong," he replied, "and if so, I repent me of it." "Of a certainty thee was, friend.
This done, she despatched a servant to the postoffice with it and sat down before the fire. "I expect it was wrong of me," she said. "But somehow I can't help feeling he ought to know. Anyway" Dot's English was becoming lightly powdered with Americanisms, which possessed a very decided charm on her lips "anyway, it's done, and I won't think any more about it.
I shall ask you to do me the favour of leaving Americanisms out of your conversation when you are in the society of English ladies and gentlemen. It won't do." "I didn't know I said it," Rosy answered feebly. "That is the difficulty," was his response. "You never know, but educated people do." There was nothing more to be said, at least for a girl who had never known what it was to be bullied.
He exaggerated the Americanisms which he knew always made the Englishmen laugh and poured out a breathless stream of conversation, whimsical, high-spirited, and jolly. In due course they went out to dinner and afterwards to the Gaite Montparnasse, which was Flanagan's favourite place of amusement. By the end of the evening he was in his most extravagant humour.
She was convinced that Lionel Belmont was her father. There could not be two men in the world so stamped by nature. She perceived that in changing his name he had chosen Lionel because of its similarity to Lemuel. She felt certain, too, that she had noticed vestiges of the Five Towns accent beneath his Americanisms.
Here is an Englishman, a thorough-going Tory and Monarchist, upholding everything English, government, people, habits, education, manufactures, modes of living, and expressing his dislike of all Americanisms, and this in a quiet, calm, reasonable way, as if it were quite proper to live in a country and draw his subsistence from it, and openly abuse it.
His speech was well-larded with americanisms, "but," said I, "the true twang is wanting, and," added I, laughing, "I should know you for Hampshire for all your reckons and guesses if I had to eat you should I be mistaken." "The press-gang's the best friend the Yankees has," said he a little sheepishly. "Do any man suppose I hadn't sooner hail from my native town Southampton than from New Bedford?
All the true growth and experience, the living speech, they would fain reject as 'Americanisms. It is the old error which the church, the state, the school, ever commit, choosing darkness rather than light, holding fast to the old and to tradition.
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