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He apologized, though, and said, "'Pon my soul it is aggravating, but I cahn't help it I have got so used to speaking nothing but French, my dear Erbare damme there it goes again! got so used to French pronunciation that I cahn't get rid of it it is positively annoying, I assure you."
"But we cahn't, you know," said the lady with the fringed forehead; "Hagnes is gone on to New York, and there's nobody to do Wenus." "Yes, you know," demanded the first speaker, "oo's to do Wenus? "Bella's to do Wenus," said a third. There was an outcry at this, and "'Ow ever would she get herself up for 'Venus?" and "W'at a guy she'll look!" and "Nonsense!
Then if you are still in Doubt, pay attention to the Accent. Didn't you hear him just now when he was complaining to the Porter because the Sun was on the wrong side of the Car?" "Yes, but did you hear him use 'Cahn't' and 'Glass' both in the same Sentence? When a Man Plays it Both Ways, it is a Sign that he was born in Wisconsin and attended Harvard.
"But I cahn't see it," said the nouveau, brushing his dusty trousers. "I don't see it at all, you know. Damn their cheek!" At this moment the week-weaned Frenchman shoved up to Clifford. "What did you mean by interfering? Eh! You English pig." Clifford looked at him with contempt. "What do you want, my little Nouveau?"
"'Deed ah don' know, boss," "Oh, come! Don't know where you were born?" "Fo' Gawd, boss, ah's tellin' yo de truff. Ah don know, 'cause ah born to sea." "Well, what country are you a subject of?" "Truly ah cahn't say, boss." "Well what nationality was your father?" "Ah neveh see him, sah." "Well then where the devil did you first land after you were born?" "'Deed ah cahn't say, boss.
He apologized, though, and said, "'Pon my soul it is aggravating, but I cahn't help it I have got so used to speaking nothing but French, my dear Erbare damme there it goes again! got so used to French pronunciation that I cahn't get rid of it it is positively annoying, I assure you."
"We want to engage you by the day, to do whatever we tell you." "Cahn't do dat, missy. Got to sell flowers and roses. Sell 'em for de fam'ly, missy." "But in the afternoon you can come," said Corny. "There isn't any selling done then. We'll pay you." "How much?" asked Priscilla. This question was referred to me, and I offered sixpence a day.
It's the labor-coupon that counts. They sell cigarettes at the Y.M.C.A.; you are in that state where you would give your ticket home for a smoke. Yet when you throw down good gold or silver, black Sam behind the showcase looks up at you with that pitying cold eye kept in stock for new-comers, and says wearily: "Cahn't take no money heah, boss."
"But we cahn't, you know," said the lady with the fringed forehead; "Hagnes is gone on to New York, and there's nobody to do Wenus." "Yes, you know," demanded the first speaker, "oo's to do Wenus? "Bella's to do Wenus," said a third. There was an outcry at this, and "'Ow ever would she get herself up for 'Venus?" and "W'at a guy she'll look!" and "Nonsense!
Then twilight fell and I set off through the rambling town already boisterous with church services. Before the little sub-station a swarm of negroes was pounding tamborines and bawling lustily: Oh, yo mus' be a lover of de Lard Or yo cahn't go t' Heaven when yo di-ie.
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