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Updated: June 9, 2025
"It is all the same to me, good or bad," groaned Walter in reply to Lydia's Ollendorf phrase, uttering quite audible animadversions against foreign languages in general and the French in particular, which our guide fortunately did not comprehend, especially as he concluded with a crushing comparison, "Why are not all the guides like that wonderful little woman at the Castle of Chillon, who told her story in English, French, and German with equal fluency and facility?"
She knew, of course, that people of different countries were liable to be found speaking their own languages; but somehow the spectacle of the chattering multitude, all seeming so perfectly at ease with their preterits and subjunctives and never once having to refer to Ollendorf or a dictionary, filled her with a sense of dismayed surprise.
The servant looked doubtful on the point. 'There's company tonight, sir. 'I knew he was making a night of it, said Charteris to Tony. 'It's not Mr MacArthur we want to see. It's dash it, what's the Babe's name? 'Robert, I believe. Wouldn't swear to it. 'Mr Robert. Is he in? It seemed to Charteris that the form of this question smacked of Ollendorf.
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