True, the obnoxious word was never mentioned, but his propositions seldom found favor.

When Anton went round dispensing a bundle of Turkish pipes, which he had bought while abroad for his colleagues, Specht proposed that they should all sit cross-legged on the sofas and on the floors, in true Turkish fashion.

This proposal fell through.

Also, when he next asserted that, as our commerce with the East increased, the Circassian maidens sold by their parents to Turkish families would soon come over and play the part of waitresses in Bavarian beer-shops, he evidently failed to carry conviction to any of the party.

But the gentle influences of the pumpkin-bowl gradually told upon the severe intellects of the counting-house.
First of all, the musical members of the firm were reconciled.