replied the Gascon, determined to confine himself to this specimen of the
German tongue.
The
Germans, as we know, are a transcendental people, and there was at last an irresistible appeal for Vogelstein in this quick bright silent girl who could smile and turn vocal in an instant, who imparted a rare originality to the filial character, and whose profile was delicate as she bent it over a volume which she cut as she read, or presented it in musing attitudes, at the side of the ship, to the horizon they had left behind.
But at the "Trois Couronnes," it must be added, there are other features that are much at variance with these suggestions: neat
German waiters, who look like secretaries of legation; Russian princesses sitting in the garden; little Polish boys walking about held by the hand, with their governors; a view of the sunny crest of the Dent du Midi and the picturesque towers of the Castle of Chillon.
He had always clung to the illusion that
Germans were fat, absurd men, who smoked china pipes, and were addicted to knowledge and horseflesh and sauerkraut and indigestible things generally.
And then those two young men got up, and asked us if we had ever heard Herr Slossenn Boschen (who had just arrived, and was then down in the supper-room) sing his great
German comic song.
I have been seeing a great deal of the
German artists here: I travelled from Frankfort with one of them.
He wanted to hasten on in the direction of the booming noise, for he knew that there would be
Germans fighting against the English.
There had been nineteen of us in the attacking party and we had accounted in one way and another during the battle for sixteen
Germans and had taken nine prisoners, including the commander.
I was attending to some of our fellows and got very near to the
German lines.
Bradley knew nothing of the disappearance of Bowen Tyler and Miss La Rue, nor of the perfidy of the
Germans in shelling the fort and attempting to escape in the U-33; but he was in no way surprised at what he saw before him.
Late in the evening a skirmishing party of the French and a skirmishing party of the
Germans had met, by accident, near the little village of Lagrange, close to the
German frontier.
I desired to learn the
German language; so did Harris.
