"There is a splendour in good High German, the German of the stage, the German that commands: in comparison, dialect sounds like a mixed farmyard, many hens and a few geese, unwomanly, unlearned,
inurbane." Dialects exclude, including other Swiss; they also bind the Swiss against the Germans.
"Los marineros son gente gentil,
inurbane" and a sailor's only god is his sea-chest and his mess ({40}); mule-drivers, whom the first readers of this story would assume are Moriscos, are uncouth and unbelieving: "a trueco de no perder la jornada, perderan el alma; ...