The Colonel, at all fitting occasions in our commonwealth, responded to "the ladies" in tender and moving phrases.

He was a bachelor, and the ladies in the gallery saw in him their true champion.
"Please tell _us_--we don't understand a bit of it," pleaded Marian--"what it's all about, Colonel Ramsay." "Oh, it's just a little joke of your father's; nothing funnier ever happened in a state convention." Colonel Ramsay grinned.

"The key to the situation is right there: that Pulaski County delegate offered his resolution just to make trouble; it was a fake resolution.

Of course the chairman is in the joke.

This young fellow down here--yes, Harwood--made his speech to add to the gayety of nations.