Trust me to twist them into the course that shall best serve our own needs.

I am now going to tell them that you approve of their plan." Forthwith he launched out into an English version of the excellent captain's comments.

His precise, well-turned periods were admirable.
Their marked defect was that he said the exact contrary to San Benavides.
Iris, having a born aptitude for languages, spoke French and German with some proficiency.

She had also devoted many hours to the study of Spanish during the past winter, and it happens that the Portuguese of Brazil is less unlike Spanish than the Portuguese of Lisbon.

In Europe, national antipathies serve to accentuate existing differences between the two tongues, but the peoples of the South American seaboard feel the need of a common speech, and local conditions have standardized many words.