"I wouldn't speak to a dog in that fashion." "You are different." "I should hope so, indeed!" "Besides, Herr Fritz, remember, that if it hadn't been for this old lady, of whom you speak in such disrespectful terms, I should never have come here to Mezieres and been able to nurse you." "I forgot for the moment, Fraulein.

My blessing on the old catamaran for the fancy that seized her, so auspiciously, to go touring on the trail of the war and thus to bring you here.

I don't believe I would have lived, if it had not been for your care and kindness!" "Meinherr, you exaggerate.

It is to your own good constitution and to Providence that your thanks are due; I have only been a simple means towards that happy end." "Well, I shall always attribute my recovery to you, at all events; and so will my good mother, who I hope will some day be able to thank you in person for all that you've done for me and her." "I should like to see her," said Madaleine; "she must be a kind, good lady, from her letters to you." "And the fondest mother in the world!" exclaimed Fritz with enthusiasm.
"But, you will see her--some day," he added after a pause.

"I vow that you shall." "I don't know how that will be," said Madaleine, half laughing in a constrained fashion, as if wishing to conceal her real feelings.