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If I succeed, the Fatherland is well served and I've another adventure in my kit. Perhaps even another bit of iron to dangle on my coat, eh? Rawther jolly prospect, what?" He again smiled at his own mimicry, as well he might, for the accent was perfect. "But I won't fail, Herr Hauptmann."
She did it quite unintentionally, but she had a good ear and it was difficult, for instance, to say "rather" when Mr. Travers said "rawther." Henri had a good ear too. And the man he was waiting for did not come. Also he had been to school in England and spoke English rather better than most British. So he heard a conversation like this, the gaps being what he lost: MR. TRAVERS: to France, anyhow.
Quackenbush only the other day that I thought the hill people were almost too exclusive .... Yes, it is a perfectly lovely day.... Er er We're soliciting for the Firemen's Tournament well, not for the Tournament exactly, but the Ladies' Aid are going to give a dinner that day for the Carpet Fund and we thought perhaps you 'd like to help along.... Oh, any little thing, a boiled ham or ... Well, we shall want some cake, but we'd druther or, at least, rawther have something more substantial, don't you know, pie or pickles or jelly, don't you know.
Here's a blooming Britisher in his mind. What are you going to do to me, Johnny Bull?" Barking was actually flattered. He enjoyed being mistaken for an Englishman. "Aw," he drawled, "it's such a blooming bother to run bases. I rawther think I'll walk, don't you know." He did. In spite of Bart's best efforts Thad waited undisturbed and was finally passed to first on four balls.
Uniacke had stepped apart from the tall old gentleman with the side whiskers, to whom she had been talking for some time, and had intercepted Rachel as she was passing on with Hugh Woodgate. "Wait while I introduce you to my most distinguished guest, or rawther him to you," whispered Mrs. Uniacke, with the Irish brogue which rendered her slightest observation a delight to the appreciative.
A circle of carrion birds stood all about me not more than ten feet away, and a great many others were flapping over me and fighting in the air. These last were so close that I could feel the wind from their wings. It was rawther gruesome." He paused and thought a a moment, as though weighing his words. "In fact," he added with an air of final conviction, "it was QUITE gruesome!"
"Begging your pardon, ma'am, but I've always rawther fawncied myself for an expert on morning-awfter tonics. If you'll wait a moment " He departed on his errand of mercy, returning shortly with a highball glass filled with some dark, evil-looking potion. He set it on the table in front of the sufferer and poured her a cup of coffee. "Now, ma'am; just try this. Take it gradually, if I may suggest.
They will not be ready to strike again before late Fall perhaps not until Spring. We must " "Speak in English," interrupted one of the other officers. "Much as we hate it, we must see to it that it is perfect." "Right you are!" von Herzmann replied with the perfect accent of a well-bred Englishman. "My three years' schooling in England was not for nothing, sir. Accent top hole, eh, what! Rawther."
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