[The Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land by Ralph Connor]@TWC D-Link bookThe Sky Pilot in No Man’s Land CHAPTER I 10/37
Not at all.
You will like him." "I am sure I shall," replied the youth.
"I liked his voice and his face. I like the Americans.
I met such nice chaps at college.
So clever, and with such a vocabulary." "Vocabulary? Well, I'm not too sure as to the vocabulary part of it." "Yes, such bright, pat, expressive slang, so fresh and in such variety. So different from your heavy British slang, in which everything approaching the superlative must be one of three things, 'ripping,' with very distinct articulation on the double p, or 'top hole,' or 'awfully jolly.' More recently, I believe, a fourth variation is allowed in 'priceless.' "Ah, my boy, you have unconsciously uttered a most searching criticism on your American friends.
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