'We were all there,' said Miss Mary - 'mamma and all of us. We even persuaded papa to go. Hannah would insist upon it. But he fell asleep while Mr. Langweilig, the German Moravian minister, was speaking. I felt quite ashamed, he nodded so.'
(from "Shirley" by Charlotte Brontë)
note: langweilig means boring in German.
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old brit writers were good at that stuff XD
especially the chicks xD
Actually, on a whole modern brit writers are still good at irony :D
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