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She did not understand a single word of the patois spoken to her by the peasants, and which even Jean had some difficulty in following, although he had spent a good deal of his time at the little chateau during the lifetime of his aunt. "Should you like to live here, when not at sea, Jean?" asked Patsey. "Yes, I would rather live here than at Nantes.
In another half-hour the White Guard was at ease, and four of them were gathered about the great stove in the store, Cloud-in-the-Sky smoking placidly, and full of guttural emphasis; Late Carscallen moving his animal-like jaws with a sense of satisfaction; Gaspe Toujours talking in Chinook to the Indians, in patois to the French clerk, and in broken English to them all; and Jeff Hyde exclaiming on the wonders of the march, the finding of Lepage at Manitou Mountain, and of himself and Gaspe Toujours buried in the snow.
Montreville addressed him in English, which savoured slightly of a Swiss patois, "You have come to us very fast, sir, to say nothing at all. Are you sure you did not get your tongue stolen by de way?" "I thought I had seen an old friend in that lady, madam," stammered Hartley, "but it seems I am mistaken." "The good people do tell me that you are one Doctors Hartley, sir.
"Better so, Francisco," he said in a voice which scarcely betrayed an accent, and indeed this was not strange considering that he spoke the patois of many people, being a born linguist. His father had been a Frenchman, a Gascon, but his mother was a daughter of Seville. "But you have not said all."
In his travels he made a study of the gipsies, on whom he wrote more than one book. His fame rests chiefly on his Hans Breitmann Ballads , written in the patois known as Pennsylvania Dutch. Other books of his are Meister Karl's Sketch-book , Legends of Birds , Algonquin Legends , Legends of Florence , and Flaxius, or Leaves from the Life of an Immortal. Antiquary, b. in London, and ed. at St.
He would give his time, his pen, his speech, his means, to get them justice to get them their rights." She hushed the over-zealous advocate with a sad and bitter smile and essayed to speak, studied as if for English words, and, suddenly abandoning that attempt, said, with ill-concealed scorn and in the Creole patois: "What is all that? What I want is vengeance!"
He muttered a few words in the Hispano-Indian patois which his hearers best understood, and the scene in the saloon changed with wondrous suddenness. The glow of the electric lamps banished the gathering shadows. The luxurious comfort of the apartment soon dispelled the notion of danger. Coffee was brought.
The language, in particular, filled them with surprise. "Do they speak patois in England?" I was once asked; and when I told them not, "Ah, then, French?" said they. "No, no," I said, "not French." "Then," they concluded, "they speak patois." You must obviously either speak French or patois. Talk of the force of logic here it was in all its weakness.
And she chattered on, in a patois not always intelligible, even to Eleanor's trained ear, about the widowed Contessa, her daughter, and her son; about the new roads that Don Emilio had made through the woods; of the repairs and rebuilding at the Villa Guerrini all stopped since his death; of the Sindaco of Selvapendente, who often came up to Torre Amiata for the summer; of the nuns in the new convent just built there under the hill, and their fattore, whose son was with Don Emilio after he was wounded, when the poor young man implored his own men to shoot him and put him out of his pain who had stayed with him till he died, and had brought his watch and pocket-book back to the Contessa
I was not a little surprised at being addressed in the Patois dialect of the Basques in my own country, which is spoken about Bayonne and other parts adjacent to the Pyrenees.
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