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1  Your German grammar is on the table.
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2  This is not the moment for German scepticism.
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3  I know perfectly well that I look quite plain after my German lesson.
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4  Indeed, he always lays stress on your German when he is leaving for town.
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5  He laid particular stress on your German, as he was leaving for town yesterday.
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6  You know German, and geology, and things of that kind influence a man very much.
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7  But German sounds a thoroughly respectable language, and indeed, I believe is so.
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8  Indeed I was thinking about that, and not about my German lesson, when the Rector came in.
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