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More interesting to us than all the rest was our own servant, Bettina, who came to us from a village on the mainland. She was very dark, so dark and so Southern in appearance as almost to verge upon the negro type; yet she bore the English-sounding name of Scarbro, and how she ever came by it remains a puzzle to this day, for she was one of the most pure and entire of Italians.
I was obliged to kiss Biddy to keep from laughing out loud. And she couldn't scream or box my ears, or all our dreadful precautions would have been vain. "We must find them," said Monny. "Why?" "Oh, if we don't, they might find us." Anthony laughed a give-away, English-sounding laugh. But Monny did not recognize its birthplace.
The first visit he made, according to the concierge, was about an hour before the second: the concierge was already in bed in his little box, but not asleep, when a man rang and an English-sounding voice asked for Monsieur Gestre. On hearing that Gestre was away, the visitor said he would see the gentleman who was stopping in Gestre's room.
I can only register here my complete concurrence with the opinion expressed in Tract No. 3 of the Society for Pure English that the 'English form of the French sound of the word would be approximately tamber; and this would be not only a good English-sounding word, like amber and chamber, but would be like our tambour, which is tympanum, which again is timbre'.
The English pronunciation of the letters of timbre is forbidden by its homophone a French girl collecting postage-stamps in England explained that she collected timberposts , whereas our English form of the French sound of the word would be approximately tamber; and this would be not only a good English-sounding word like amber and clamber, but would be like our tambour, which is tympanum, which again IS timbre.
Is it a little independent principality like Monacoa? But how funny it should have an English-sounding name sandwiched in right here between Italy and France." "The lord of the land is an Englishman, and a benevolent one, a sort of fairy god-father to the poor in all the country round," I explained.
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