Then my wife's lips parted, and from them issued--_my latest bath-room remark_.

The language perfect, but the expression velvety, unpractical, apprenticelike, ignorant, inexperienced, comically inadequate, absurdly weak and unsuited to the great language.

In my lifetime I had never heard anything so out of tune, so inharmonious, so incongruous, so ill-suited to each other as were those mighty words set to that feeble music.

I tried to keep from laughing, for I was a guilty person in deep need of charity and mercy.

I tried to keep from bursting, and I succeeded--until she gravely said, "There, now you know how it sounds." Then I exploded; the air was filled with my fragments, and you could hear them whiz.