[The Innocents Abroad by Mark Twain]@TWC D-Link bookThe Innocents Abroad CHAPTER XIX 14/29
Spell it to suit yourself, but fetch it. I'm freezing." I heard the doctor say impressively: "Dan, how often have we told you that these foreigners cannot understand English? Why will you not depend upon us? Why will you not tell us what you want, and let us ask for it in the language of the country? It would save us a great deal of the humiliation your reprehensible ignorance causes us.
I will address this person in his mother tongue: 'Here, cospetto! corpo di Bacco! Sacramento! Solferino!--Soap, you son of a gun!' Dan, if you would let us talk for you, you would never expose your ignorant vulgarity." Even this fluent discharge of Italian did not bring the soap at once, but there was a good reason for it.
There was not such an article about the establishment.
It is my belief that there never had been.
They had to send far up town, and to several different places before they finally got it, so they said.
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