And before she began to do this she took the trouble to have every thing cleared away and the trays brought down, that her boarders (chiefly German) might leave their plates and be driven to their pipes.
"If you please, Miss Castlewood," Mrs.Strouss said, grandly, "do you or do you not approve of the presence of 'my man,' as he calls himself ?--an improper expression, in my opinion; such, however, is their nature.

He can hold his tongue as well as any man, though none of them are very sure at that.

And he knows pretty nigh as much as I do, so far as his English can put things together, being better accustomed in German.

For when we were courting I was fain to tell him all, not to join him under any false pretenses, miss, which might give him grounds against me." "Yes, yes, it is all vere goot and true--so goot and true as can be." "And you might find him come very handy, my dear, to run of any kind of messages.

He can do that very well, I assure you, miss--better than any Englishman." Seeing that he wished to stay, and that she desired it, I begged him to stop, though it would have been more to my liking to hear the tale alone.
"Then sit by the door, Hans, and keep off the draught," said his Wilhelmina, kindly.