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He overruns Latin and French with greater barbarism than the Goths did Italy and France, and makes as mad a confusion of language by mixing both with English. Nor does he use English much better, for he clogs it so with words that the sense becomes as thick as puddle, and is utterly lost to those that have not the trick of skipping over where it is impertinent.
"You leave that kebbidge-stalk be, Elfie!" "Ethel! Jew hear your ma calling you, you naughty girl?" "Stanlee! will you give over fishing in that puddle, this sminute. I'll give you such a slepping, you see if I don't." "Come here, Maybel, and let me blow your nose. Daisy Hawkins, lend us your henkerchif, there's a love! Our Maybel wants to blow her nose. Oo, she is a sight!
There is a difference, I trust, between the blood of learned and reverend prelates and scholars, of gallant soldiers and noble gentlemen, and the red puddle that stagnates in the veins of psalm-singing mechanics, crackbrained demagogues, and sullen boors; some distinction, in short, between spilling a flask of generous wine, and dashing down a can full of base muddy ale?"
Teddy sleepily dragged himself from his bed, pulled himself wearily to the window and threw open the blinds. "Where are we?" asked Phil. "Ask the pilot," grumbled Teddy. "How do you suppose I know? This water looks like a big mud puddle. I'm hungry; aren't you?" "Yes, I am. What are we going to do for breakfast? I never thought to bring along a lunch." "I've got an egg," chuckled Teddy.
"Don't they have any genooine Texans down your way?" "Not enough to make it disagreeable," says Tim. "That lets you out," growls Pete, gettin' hostile and handlin' of his rifle. Which the man had been standin' there bewildered, the cup hangin' from his finger. At last, lookin' pretty desperate, he stooped down to dig up a little of the wet from an overflow puddle lyin' at his feet.
Stunned by this puddle of life, unable to make sense of it, Foma questions, and questions vainly, whether of Sofya Medynsky in her drawing-room of beauty, or in the foulest depths of the first chance courtesan's heart. Linboff, whose books contradict one another, cannot help him; nor can the pilgrims on crowded steamers, nor the verse writers and harlots in dives and boozingkens.
"It's very hard," replied the midshipman, "that because my jacket's a little tarry or so, I must lose my rank." "My dear fellow," replied O'Brien, "it's not because your jacket's a little tarry; it is because what the Frenchman call your tout ensemble is quite disgraceful in an officer. Look at your face in the first puddle, and you'll find that it would dirty the water you look into."
With the constellations of space they confound the stars of the abyss which are made in the soft mire of the puddle by the feet of ducks. We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on his word.
Here again we were introduced by our long-legged friend, who kept pace with our animals with ease, and after a short parley once more moved on, but were again obliged to stop with another tribe, rather more numerous than the last, who were encamped on a dirty little puddle of water that was hardly drinkable; however, they very kindly asked us to stay and sleep, an honour I begged to decline.
With a tin pail in his hand, the captain now went to the cavern of the lake. He wished very much to procure some better water than the last that had been brought, and which Mok must have dipped up from a very shallow puddle.
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