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"And now, sir," said the boy, looking up, "will you write to my mother? And shall I see her? And shall I go home?" "Tell me first, whether you understant all this that you have learnt so cliply," said Mr. Owen ap Jones. That was more than his bond. Our hero's countenance fell: and he acknowledged that he did not understand it perfectly.
The markets are dead flat just now nothing doing whatever. It's enough to make you tear your hair." "Really!" said Nina. "He gave me to understant that it was something urgent." And then she became suddenly silent, meeting Archie's eyes, and aware of the surprise he was too much of a gentleman to express. With a cold feeling of dissatisfaction she turned from the subject.
"We'll stick 'ere behint th' connin'-tower," the engineer explained to Dave, as the submarine, turning, put off up the dark channel which separated the solid shore-ice from the great drift of ice-floe that lay beyond. "If they submerge," suggested Dave, "we'll have a slim chance." "H'I doubt if they understant that much," mumbled the engineer between chattering teeth.
"I understant," said he, "vy you call her Asie; dis is Asiatic cooking." "I begin to think he loves me," said Esther to Europe; "he has said something almost like a bon mot." "I said many vorts," said he. "Well! he is more like Turcaret than I had heard he was!" cried the girl, laughing at this reply, worthy of the many artless speeches for which the banker was famous.
Soon afterwards he summoned Dominick to his awful desk; and, pointing with his ruler to the following page in Harris's Hermes, bade him "reat it, and understant it, if he could." Little Dominick read, but could not understand. "Then read it loud, you plockit." Dominick read aloud
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