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John Thresher wagered I would be a man before either of them reached that goal. But whenever he spoke he suffered correction on account of his English. 'More than his eating and his drinking, that child's father worrits about his learning to speak the language of a British gentleman, Mrs. Waddy exclaimed. 'Before that child your h's must be like the panting of an engine to please his father.
General H's daughter has a beautiful new silk dress and a lovely hat which she got just a few weeks before her mother's death; as she has gone in black she wants to sell it, and if you say so, and will pay for it on installments, I can get if for Annette, and I think with a little alteration it would be splendid for her graduation dress." "No; Eliza, I can't afford it."
Her manners, judged alone, had improved. But they had not improved her. They did not belong to her; they did not fit her. They sat on her as Sunday broadcloth on a yokel. She had learned to employ her "h's" correctly, and to speak good grammar. This gave to her conversation a painfully artificial air.
He is it is difficult to resist the temptation of dropping and inserting the h's handsome, haughty, arbitrary, as well as rich, generous after a fashion, well descended, well dressed, well mannered except when he is insolent. He is also which certainly stands to his credit in the bank which is not that of the snob or the schoolgirl no fool in a general way.
"Yes. A little bridge till eleven." "You're hopeless. I can see you in limbo, matching coffin-plates with Charon. I'll hunt you up at eleven." "Heard the talk?" "About what?" "Why, some one in the club has been using the agony column. The J.H's are being guyed unmercifully, and you'll come in for it presently. It's a case of wine on the man who did it."
I did not catch the name of his universal language, but I judged the one at which he would excel would be a language with few if any h's in it. After this disappointment I lost heart and came away.
She was really too talkative, not minding her h's and punctuating her discourse with "for certain" and "listen to me, then," calling Amedee "my little man," and eating vulgar dishes. One day she offered to kiss him, with a breath that smelled of garlic. She was the one who left him, from feminine pride, feeling that he no longer loved her, and he almost regretted her.
Behold him in pepper-and-salt pantaloons, with his watch-guard round his neck. Were copies to be written? In capital B's and H's most of the girls under Miss Peecher's tuition were half a year ahead of every other letter in the alphabet.
The Reverend Simeon Rawkins, the lowest of the Low Church, sir a red-haired dumpy man, who gasped at his h's and spoke with a Lancashire twang he'd no more do for Mayfair than Grimaldi for Macbeth. He and Honeyman used to fight like cat and dog in the vestry: and he drove away a third part of the congregation.
Not only did he fail to understand what was said to him, but the dropping of h's and the introduction of r's in wrong places rendered his own efforts at reply abortive. In these circumstances one of the sailors who professed to talk English was sent for. This man, a fine stalwart Turk, with a bushy black beard, began his duties as interpreter with the question "Hoosyoo?"
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