But I have took the pledge, and kep' it faithful for eighteen months past." Miss Wilson now set down the man as one of those keen, half-witted country fellows, contemptuously styled originals, who unintentionally make themselves popular by flattering the sense of sanity in those whose faculties are better adapted to circumstances.
"You have a bad memory, Mr.Smilash," she said good-humoredly.

"You never give the same account of yourself twice." "I am well aware that I do not express myself with exactability.

Ladies and gentlemen have that power over words that they can always say what they mean, but a common man like me can't.

Words don't come natural to him.

He has more thoughts than words, and what words he has don't fit his thoughts.