'Ich wage die Gedanken in der Schale meines Zornes und die Werke mit dem Gewichte meines Grimms.' I like it!" Both were again silent.
"Is there ony country where they talk i' that way ?" asked the old woman, looking up from her knitting.
"Yes, Hannah--a far larger country than England, where they talk in no other way." "Well, for sure case, I knawn't how they can understand t' one t'other: and if either o' ye went there, ye could tell what they said, I guess ?" "We could probably tell something of what they said, but not all--for we are not as clever as you think us, Hannah.

We don't speak German, and we cannot read it without a dictionary to help us." "And what good does it do you ?" "We mean to teach it some time--or at least the elements, as they say; and then we shall get more money than we do now." "Varry like: but give ower studying; ye've done enough for to-night." "I think we have: at least I'm tired.

Mary, are you ?" "Mortally: after all, it's tough work fagging away at a language with no master but a lexicon." "It is, especially such a language as this crabbed but glorious Deutsch.
I wonder when St.John will come home." "Surely he will not be long now: it is just ten (looking at a little gold watch she drew from her girdle).

It rains fast, Hannah: will you have the goodness to look at the fire in the parlour ?" The woman rose: she opened a door, through which I dimly saw a passage: soon I heard her stir a fire in an inner room; she presently came back.
"Ah, childer!" said she, "it fair troubles me to go into yond' room now: it looks so lonesome wi' the chair empty and set back in a corner." She wiped her eyes with her apron: the two girls, grave before, looked sad now.
"But he is in a better place," continued Hannah: "we shouldn't wish him here again.

And then, nobody need to have a quieter death nor he had." "You say he never mentioned us ?" inquired one of the ladies.
"He hadn't time, bairn: he was gone in a minute, was your father.