The mother was an outside conscience, and now as Gottlieb, who had lapsed into German for his wife's benefit, rattled on his denunciation of this Cannanitish Yankee, with whom his son was in love, the son looked every now and then into the eyes, the still German eyes of the mother, and rejoiced that he saw there no reflection of his father's rebuke.

The older Wehle presently resumed his English, such as it was, as better adapted to scolding.

Whether he thought to make his children love German by abusing them in English, I do not know, but it was his habit.
[Footnote 1: Not until my attention was called to this word in the proof did I know that in this sense it is a provincialism.

It is so used, at least in half the country, and yet neither of our American dictionaries has it.] "I dells you tese Yangees is Yangees.

Dere neber voz put shust von cood vor zompin.