I should be sorry to see it altogether done away with, let the new generation say what it will." And taking one each end of the ample settee, we kept George company.
To Hanover one should go, they say, to learn the best German.

The disadvantage is that outside Hanover, which is only a small province, nobody understands this best German.

Thus you have to decide whether to speak good German and remain in Hanover, or bad German and travel about.
Germany being separated so many centuries into a dozen principalities, is unfortunate in possessing a variety of dialects.

Germans from Posen wishful to converse with men of Wurtemburg, have to talk as often as not in French or English; and young ladies who have received an expensive education in Westphalia surprise and disappoint their parents by being unable to understand a word said to them in Mechlenberg.

An English-speaking foreigner, it is true, would find himself equally nonplussed among the Yorkshire wolds, or in the purlieus of Whitechapel; but the cases are not on all fours.