 | 1842 - 796 pàgines
...objection ; then, sitting down in front of the fire, while Herr Hons saw to the due setting-out of supper, I entreated that my presence might not interrupt the conversation in which I had found my companions engaged, adding that I had a sufficient acquaintance with their language to... | |
 | Robert L. Wade - 1846 - 448 pàgines
...smallest objection ; then sitting down in front of the fire, while Herr Hons saw to the due setting-out of supper, I entreated that my presence might not interrupt the conversation in which I had found my companions engaged, adding that I had a sufficient acquaintance with their language to... | |
 | Moulton Hampton, Henry E. Davenport (pseud.?) - 1856 - 332 pàgines
...mincing utterance, occasional lapses into a Low Dutch dialect, frequent exclamations of " yuter Tott ! " and continued interchanging of the pronouns mir and...that occupied this curiously contrasted pair, whose birth-places were not more widely asunder than their habits or thoughts, and in whose handicrafts,... | |
 | 1856 - 330 pàgines
...Sie and Ihnen, certified you with equal infallibility of a Prussian, and truly no RhenishPrussian, but a genuine nursling of Royal Berlin herself. He...absolute," were, I found, the pleasant after-dinner topies that occupied this curiously contrasted pair, whose birth-pkces were not more widely asunder... | |
 | Henry E. Davenport - 1857 - 336 pàgines
...that neither to cigar nor pipe, as long as they were in anybody's mouth but my own, had I the Bmallest objection ; then sitting down in front of the fire,...pleasant after-dinner topics that occupied this curiously contrusted pair, whose birth-places were not more widely asunder than their hubits or thoughts, and... | |
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I mistaken on either point. On my entering the room, with German courtesy they both ceased smoking, until assured by me that neither to cigar nor pipe, as long as they were in anybody's mouth but my own, had I the smallest objection; then sitting down... 