"I am not objecting; I respect you for it." He recovered his temper, and went on: "There were four in the window, if you remember, all very much alike, and each one labelled in plain figures twenty marks.

I don't pretend to speak German fluently, but I can generally make myself understood with a little effort, and gather the sense of what is said to me, provided they don't gabble.

I went into the shop.

A young girl came up to me; she was a pretty, quiet little soul, one might almost say, demure; not at all the sort of girl from whom you would have expected such a thing.

I was never more surprised in all my life." "Surprised about what ?" I said.
George always assumes you know the end of the story while he is telling you the beginning; it is an annoying method.
"At what happened," replied George; "at what I am telling you.