Shut yourself in, and if you soap the door to deceive me, I shall know it." "Vere goot, vere goot," said the philosophical German; "I never meddle with nothing, Vilhelmina, no more than vhat I do for de money and de house." Betsy, however, was not quite so sure of that.

With no more ceremony she locked him in, and then came back to us, who could not make things out.
"My husband is the bravest of the brave," she told us, while she put down his key on the table; "and a nobler man never lived; I am sure of that.

But every one of them foreigners--excuse me, Sir, you are an Englishman ?" "I am," replied the Major, pulling up his little whiskers; "I am so, madam, and nothing you can say will in any way hurt my feelings.

I am above nationalities." "Just so, Sir.

Then you will feel with me when I say that they foreigners is dreadful.