What I Mean And What I Say

I Was Observing Her Closely As I Talked, And After A While I Began To Get The Impression That She Was Not, In Fact, Quite So Merry And Smiling A Girl As I Had Been Led To Believe At First. She Seemed To Be Coiled In Herself, As Though With A Secret She Was Jealously Guarding. The Deep-blue Eyes Moved Too Quickly About The Room, Never Settling Or Resting On One Thing For More Than A Moment; And Over All Her Face, Though So Faint That They Might Not Even Have Been There, Those Small Downward Lines Of Sorrow.

Words," He Said, "is Oh Such A Twitch-tickling Problem To Me All My Life.

... And When He Put His Mind To It, He Could Make His Words Coil Themselves Around And Around The Listener Until They Held Her In Some Sort Of A Mild Hypnotic Spell.

Homesickness Is A Bit Like Seasickness. You Don't Know How Awful It Is Unti You Get It, And When You Do, It Hits You Right In The Top Of The Stomach And You Want To Die.

Then Suddenly, He Was Struck By A Powerful But Simple Little Truth, And It Was This: That English Grammar Is Governed By Rules That Are Almost Mathematical In Their Strictness!