English As She Is Spoke
Introduction to "The New Guide of the Conversation in Portuguese and English" | Useful Words, Part I | Useful Words, Part II | Familiar Phrases | Familiar Dialogues, Part I | Familiar Dialogues, Part II | Familiar Dialogues, Part III | Familiar Letters | Familiar Anecdotes | Idiotisms and Proverbs
For to buy.
I won't have a good and fine
cloth to make a coat.
How much do you
sell it the ell?
We thout
overcharge you from a halfpenny, it cost twenty franks.
Sir, I am not accustomed to
cheapen: tell me the last price.
I have told you, sir, it is
valuable in that.
It is too much dear, I give at it, eighteen franks.
You shall not have what you have wished.
You did beg me my last word, I told you them.
Well, well, cut them two ells.
Don't you will not more?
No,
at present.
For to dine.
Go to dine, the dinner is ready.
Cut some
bread; here is it, I don't know that boiled meat is good.
Gentilman, will you have some beans?
Peter, uncork a
Porto wine bottle.
Sir, what will you to?
Some pears, and apples, what wilt you?
Taste us rather that
liquor, it is good for the stomach.
I am too much obliged to you, is done.
For to speak french.
How is the
french? Are you too learned now?
I could to tell some word's that I
know by heart.
Not apprehend you,
the french language is not difficult.
I know it, and she have great deal of agreement. Who I would be. If I
was know it!
It must to study for to learn it. How long there is it what you learn
it?
It is not yet a month.
How is called your master?
It is called N***.
I know him it is long; he has teached a many of my friends. Don't he
tell you that it must to speak french?
For to see the town.
Anthony, go to accompany they gentilsmen, do they see the town.
We won't to see all that is it remarquable here.
Admire this master piece
gothic architecture's.
The chasing of all they figures is astonishing indeed.
The streets are very layed out by line and too paved.
There is it also hospitals here?
It not
fail them.
What are then the edifices the worthest to have seen?
It is the arsnehal, the spectacle's hall, the cusiom-house and the Purse.
We are going too see the others monuments such that the public
pawnbroker's office, the plants garden's the money office's,
the library.
To inform one'self of a person.
How is that gentilman who you did speak by and by.
Is a
German.
Tongh he is German, he speak so much well italyan, french, spanish, and
english, that among
the Italyans, they believe him Italyan, he speak the
frenche as the Frenches himselves. The Spanishesmen belie ve him
Spanishing, and the Englishes, Englisman.
It is difficult to enjoy well so much several languages.
For to ride a horse.
Here is a
horse who have a bad looks. Give me another; I will not that.
He not sall know to march, he is
pursy, he is foundered. Don't you are
ashamed to give me a
jade as like? he is undshoed, he is with nails up;
it want to lead to the farrier.
Your pistols are its loads?
No; I forgot to buy
gun-powder and
balls.
Let us prick. Go us more fast
never I was seen a so much bad beast; she will not nor to bring forward
neither put back.
Strek him the bridle, hold him the reins sharters. Pique stron gly, make
to marsh him.
I have pricked him enough. But I can't to make march him.
Go down, I shall make march.
Take care that he not give you a foot kick's.
Then he kicks for that I look? Sook here if I knew to tame hix.
With a watch maker.
I bring you a
watch that want to be ordered.
I had the
misfortune to leave fall down the instant where I did mounted,
it must to put again a glass.
I want not a
pendulum? I have them here some very good.
Don't you live me her proof againts? I shall not accept this condition.
For to visit a sick.
How have you passed the night?
Very bad. I have not sleeped; I have had the fever during
all night. I
fell some pain every where body.
Live me see your tongue. Have you
pain to the heart?
Are you altered?
Yes, I have thursty often.
Your stat have nothing from lrouble some.
What I may to eat?
You can take a
broth.
Can I to get up my self?
Yes, during a hour or two.
Let me have another thing to do?
Take care to hold you warme ly, and in two or three days you shall be
cured.
For to travel.
Where you go so?
I am going to
Cadiz.
have you already arrested a coach?
Yes, sir, and
very cheap.
There is it some danger on the highway?
It is not spoken that.
They speak not that may have some
robbers on the woods?
It have nothing to fear, or in day neither the night.
Don't we does pass for a***?
No, sir, they leave it to left.
Let us take patience, still some o'clock, and we shall be in the end of
our voyage.
With a inn keeper.
What you give us for to take
supper.
Gentlemen, what you will have.
Give us a pigeon couple, a piece of ham and a salad.
What have us expended?
The accout mount in little the supper, the bed and the breakfast, shall
get up at thirty franks.
From the house-keeping.
I don't know more what I won't with they servants.
I tell the same, it is not more some
good servants. Any one take care to
sweep up neither to make fire at what I may be up.
How the times are changed! Anciently I had some servants who were
divine
my thought. The duty was done at the instant, all things were cleanly
hold one my look on the furnitures now as you do see. It is too
different, whole is covered from
dust; the pier-glasses side-boards, the
pantries, the chests of drawers, the walls selves, are changed of
colours.
Believe me, send again whole the people; I take upon my self to find you
some good servants for to succeed them.
Ah! what I shall be
oblige to you of it!
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