A Boy in the Peninsular War; the Services, Adventures And Experiences of Robert Blakeney, Subaltern in the 28th Regiment;
A Boy in the Peninsular War; the Services, Adventures And Experiences of Robert Blakeney, Subaltern in the 28th Regiment;
Blakeney, Robert, B. 1789
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I cannot cope with you in your dignities there, for I cannot deny that you have been honoured in that way by Bomans, and by Danes, and by Saxons, and by Picts, and by Scots." ^^Tour arguments," at last said the Englishman, after some farther exchange of historical fragments, '^ might pass without contempt had they not been delivered with such a disgusting brogue. I shoold recommend you to go back again to some charity school — I mean, in England." Digiti ized by Google 174 WE ENTERTAIN RIGHT RO...YALLY AT TARIFA. [Ch. '' If I intended to go to a charity school, it shoald certainly be in England. In my country it is only the destitute who go ; bat in yoars it is the ricli men who send their sons on to the 'foundations' of the public schools which were originally intended for the education of poor clergj^men's sons. With respect to my brogue, which you civilly term disgusting, it is our national accent and not disgusting to native ears, although to us the language is foreign. But I should like to know with what accent your countrymen spoke bastard French when it was crammed down their throats with a rod of iron for upwards of three hundred years ?
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