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It seemed frivolous, almost impertinent, and the landsturm officer, leaning in the open window beside me in the passageway, thinking perhaps of his own home across the Rhine, laughed and breathed a deep-chested "Kolossal!" We passed Enghien, Leuze, Tournai, all with that curious look of a run-down clock.
All day long innumerable trains rolled southward along that line, and every train was packed with soldiers in field-gray their cheerful, stolid bullet-heads stuck out of all the windows. "Why so many soldiers," I asked, "and where are they all going?" My Luxembourg friends laughed. "Yes, yes," they said. "That is it. Trier has a splendid climate for soldiers. The situation is kolossal for that!"
"Have you seen Belot's portrait of Tante, yet, Franz?" she again excluded her husband; "It is just finished." Herr Lippheim had seen it only that morning and he repeated, but now in preoccupied tones, "Kolossal!" They talked, and Gregory stood above them, aloof from their conversation frigidly gazing over the company, his elbow in his hand, his neat fingers twisting his moustache.
But his face fell as the latter shook his head. "No?" he asked. "Eet will not do?" "No," said Rushford, slowly; "I'm afraid it won't do. You see it would be a kind of ex post facto proceeding " "A I ton't quite comprehen', monsieur." "No matter trust me see what's happened since yesterday," and he waved his hand at the busy corridor. "Oh, eet iss kolossal!" cried Pelletan.
"It is like old times, isn't it, Franz?" said Karen, ignoring her husband and addressing her former suitor. "It has been oh, years since I have heard such talk. Tante needs all of you, really, to draw her out. She has been wonderful this afternoon, hasn't she?" "Ah, kolossal!" said Herr Lippheim, making no gesture, but expressing the depths of his appreciation by an emphasized solemnity of gaze.
The major asked for an immediate interview with the commandant, but the German captain who had entered replied that that was unfortunately impossible as that officer had gone out at lunch time and would not return till late. It was a most "kolossal" lie, but I do not think that the captain should be saddled with it, as he was, doubtless, acting under instructions.
It had been a particularly trying day, spent with a party of twenty Germans, who had said "Herrlich!" when she showed them the marvels of the Vatican and "Kolossal!" at the grandeur of the Colosseum and, for the rest, had kept their noses buried in their Baedekers. She groped her way cautiously down the black hall. Tina had a habit of leaving sundry brushes, pans or babies lying about.
For the comfortable quarters of the Chateau d'Azan they had a gross appreciation, for the enforced hospitality of its owners an insolent condescension. They took it as their due, and resented the silent protest underneath it. "Excellent wine, Herr Baron," said the prince, who, like his comrade, drank profusely of the best in the cellar. "Your Rudesheimer Berg '94 is kolossal.
It was undoubtedly a "kolossal" establishment after the best Berlin style. So that there might be no mistake about the name it was placarded all over the front of the place in gilt letters three feet high on glass panels Café Regina. It was about nine o'clock in the morning and at that early hour I had the place to myself.
"This is Julius Zimmermann, the young man I have spoken of," said the Jew; then turning to me: "Herr Haase is willing to take you on as waiter here on my recommendation, Julius, See that you do not make me repent of my kindness!" Here the man in shirt-sleeves, a great, fat fellow with a bullet head and a huge double chin, chuckled loudly. "Kolossal!" he cried. "Herr Kore loves his joke!
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