But walls can be climbed, and there's more than the ane way of passing them.

We've had a great lesson in that respect in the war.

It's the first time that ever a coalition of nations held together.

Germany and Austria spoke one language.

But we others, with a dozen tongues or mair to separate us, were forged into one mighty confederation by our peril and our consciousness of richt, and we beat doon that barrier of various languages, sae that it had nae existence.
And it's not only foreign peoples that speak a different tongue at times.