At twelve o'clock punctually I hurried back, moreover, to the Britannia, for I knew that my poor sick father would sit up to be regaled with an account of my conquests.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
I caught my own name, and then-and then-I would not believe it; I thought I had not heard aright then the gentlemen passed me, and one of them looked at me and laughed, and then-and then-I saw an English girl whom I knew at the Britannia, in Venice-she was with her mother, and she came up to me and held out her hand with a smile, but her mother pulled her back,-I saw her,-and she turned away.
"Erlach Court"
Ossip Schubin
To give themselves courage he whistled "Rule Britannia" and she hummed it, but held his arm very tight, and every now and then looked furtively around.
"The Rainbow Book Tales of Fun & Fancy"
Mabel Henriette Spielmann