Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (From Literature And Life)
Last Days in a Dutch Hotel (From Literature And Life)
Howells, William Dean, 1837-1920
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But in the air of their sweetnatures it flourished surprisingly, and sufficed each day for praise ofthe weather after it began to be fine, and at parting for some fondregrets, not unmixed with philosophical reflections, sadly perplexed inthe genders and the order of the verbs: with me the verb will seldomwait, as it should in German, to the end. Both of these families, verydifferent in social tradition, I fancied, were one in the amiabilitywhich makes the alien forgive so much militarism to the... German nation, and hope for its final escape from the drill-sergeant. When they went, we were left for some meals to our own American tongue, with a briefinterval of that English painter and his wife with whom we spoke, ourlanguage as nearly like English as we could. Then followed a desperatelunch and dinner where an unbroken forest of German, and a still moreimpenetrable morass of Dutch, hemmed us in. But last night it was ourjoy to be addressed in our own speech by a lady who spoke it as admirablyas our dear friends from F-----.
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