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"Il y a des choses qui se font mais que ne se disent point, as the French say, Moreover, if the poet had been fair, he would also save shown an opposite case. 'La petite chienne veut, mais le grand chien ne veut pas, says Ollendorf. "Least of all is she justified in leaving her children's education in the hands of the father whom she despises."
"I will call you Philip. I suppose that is the English name. Will you lay down your violin and draw up to the fire?" "I am not cold," said Phil. "He is not cold, he is hungry, as Ollendorf says," said Edwin, who had written a few French exercises according to Ollendorf's system. "Is supper almost ready?" "It will be ready at once.
The man perpended, and when he replied did so after the style of the late and great Ollendorf. 'Old Inns, he said dreamily, waving a hand down the road by which he had come, 'be over there. 'Yes, yes, I know, said Gethryn. 'Was born at Old Inns, I was, continued the man, warming to his subject. 'Lived there fifty-five years, I have. Yeou go straight down the road an' yeou cam t' Old Inns.
This Yellowstone Park is laid out like Ollendorf, in exercises of progressive difficulty. Hell's Half-Acre was a prelude to ten or twelve miles of geyser formation.
The topics of the latter were fine, but were never alluded to by the boys. Like the poor fellow who had learned in Ollendorf to ask in faultless German, "Have you seen my grandmother's red cow?" and, when he reached Germany, discovered that he had no occasion to inquire after that interesting animal, Ben found that his book-Dutch did not avail him as much as he had hoped.
His sisters, who were taught French from Ollendorf's grammar, were able to speak the language after two years' study; but the college boys could not say a single sentence after six. Ollendorf was a name which they pronounced with pity and contempt. It was the essence of all that was stupid.
Wearying of success in Art, I might eventually go into Parliament: a Prime Minister with a thorough knowledge of history: why not? With Ollendorf for guide, I continued French and German. It might be the diplomatic service that would appeal to me in my old age. An ambassadorship! It would be a pleasant termination to a brilliant career. There was excuse for my optimistic mood about this period.
Salemina's right hand, with the glass in it, dropped nervelessly at her side. "If he uttered one single syllable of all that rigmarole, then Ollendorf is a myth, that's all I have to say." "The gift of tongues is not vouchsafed to all," I responded with dignity. "I happen to possess a talent for languages, and I apprehend when I do not comprehend."
That ridiculous little Bella Arkwright said, 'J'aime beaucoup les oiseaux qui sing. She thought sing was French! Every girl in school began, 'J'aime beaucoup les oiseaux'! To-morrow the subject is 'Jules Cesar. I'm sure I don't know what to say. There isn't a word in Ollendorf about him. "There aren't so many new scholars this term as there were last. The girls think it is because Mrs.
Millicent had a vague acquaintance with both languages; but it was of the Ollendorf order, and did not avail her in understanding their rapid, excited words. Soon there were other sounds, the animal cries, the sobs, the labored grunts of men engaged in deadly struggle.
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