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So I am come to-day, sir, in the first place, to pay my respects to you, and, in the next, to ask a favour of you. I find it not so easy to open the subject, however.

. What’s your difficulty? pray say what you have got to say. If it’s anything that I can do for you, do you suppose that, with the relations existing between us, I shall try to back out?


 * uttu
 * thus


 * ofi
 * Past Gerund (8) of ombi to be: having been


 * emude
 * firstly


 * oci
 * Cond. (6) of ombi to be


 * age
 * elder brother, sir


 * be
 * accusative affix


 * tuwanjiha
 * Pret. (4) of tuwanjimbi to call (composed of tuwambi to see and jimbi to come)


 * jaide
 * secondly


 * oci
 * Cond. (6) of ombi to be


 * geli
 * also


 * sakda
 * old, experienced


 * ahun
 * elder brother


 * de
 * dative affix


 * baire
 * Fut. Participle (5) of baimbi to request


 * babi
 * from ba place, occasion and bi there is


 * damu
 * but


 * baibi
 * only


 * angga
 * mouth


 * juwara
 * Fut. Part. (5) of juwambi to open


 * de
 * in


 * mangga
 * difficult


 * ede
 * so, then


 * aibi
 * (from ai what and bi is) what?


 * gisun
 * word, speech


 * bici
 * Cond. (6) of bimbi to be: if there are words


 * uthai
 * then


 * gisure
 * Imp. (1) of gisurembi to speak


 * mini
 * (gen of bi I) my


 * mutere
 * Fut. Part. (5) of mutembi to be able to do


 * baita
 * matter


 * oci
 * Cond. (6) of ombi to be


 * sinde
 * dative of si thou


 * bi
 * I


 * geli
 * too


 * marimbio
 * to turn the head away, to back out, with interrogative o.