[Two Years Ago, Volume II. by Charles Kingsley]@TWC D-Link bookTwo Years Ago, Volume II. CHAPTER XXVII 2/23
Their servants and their luggage are still here.
Perhaps the Herr Ober-Badmeister, Lieutenant D---- will know.
"Oh, it will not trouble him.
An English gentleman? Der Herr Lieutenant will be only too happy;" and in ten minutes der Herr Lieutenant appears, really only too happy; and Stangrave finds himself at once in the company of a soldier and a gentleman.
Had their acquaintance been a longer one, he would have recognised likewise the man of taste and of piety. "I can well appreciate, sir," says he, in return to Stangrave's anxious inquiries, "your impatience to rejoin your lovely countrywomen, who have been for the last three weeks the wonder and admiration of our little paradise; and whose four days' absence was regarded, believe me, as a public calamity." "I can well believe it; but they are not countrywomen of mine.
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