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It is a good thing I learned German in my youth, for even if it is so rusty at present that I can only say things like Nicht wahr, I can understand everything, and I'm sure I'll get along very nicely for at least a week on the few words that somehow have stuck in my memory. I've discovered they are: Nicht wahr, Wundervoll, Naturlich, Herrlich, Ich gratuliere, and Doch.
"My Fraulein, when you came in I thought, 'Behold yet one more well-washed, nice-looking, foolish, rich, nothing-at-all English Mees, who is going to waste my time and her money with lessons. I now perceive that I have to do with an artist. My Fraulein ich gratuliere." And he made me the funniest little solemn bow. I thought I'd die of pride.
"Ich gratuliere," said Anna-Rose, also mildly sarcastic. "I've got an idea," said Anna-Felicitas. "But it's so luminous," she said, looking from one to the other in a kind of surprise. "Of course. That's what we'll do. Ridiculous to waste time bothering about schools." There was a new expression on her face that silenced the comments rising to Anna-Rose's and Mr.
And when they say these things they all turn to me for endorsement and approval they've given up seeking response from the Swede, because she only eats and I hastily run over my best words and pick out the most suitable one, which is generally herrlich, or else ich gratuliere. The gigantic, the really cosmic cynicism I fling into it glances off their comfortable thick skins unnoticed.
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