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I learned it during the months that I spent before Danzig, from Adjutant Obriant, of the Regiment Irlandais, who was sprung from the ancient kings of the country. I was quickly able to speak it with some facility, for I do not take long to master anything to which I set my mind. In three months I could not only express my meaning, but I could use the idioms of the people.
It was Obriant who taught me to say 'Be jabers, just as we might say 'Ma foi'; and also 'The curse of Crummle! which means 'Ventre bleu! Many a time I have seen the English smile with pleasure when they have heard me speak so much like one of themselves.
Who was that who was yelling for help, and what are you trying to do to him? It was at that moment that I learned to bless those months which Obriant, the descendant of the Irish kings, had spent in teaching me the tongue of the English.
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