They couldn't understand it, but _I_ could understand it.
It was my _make_ that enabled me to be cheerful when other people were despondent.

So then it became necessary for us to waive etiquette and challenge Mr.Laird.When we reached that decision, they began to cheer up, but I began to lose some of my animation.

However, in enterprises of this kind you are in the hands of your friends; there is nothing for you to do but to abide by what they consider to be the best course.

Daggett wrote a challenge for me, for Daggett had the language--the right language--the convincing language--and I lacked it.

Daggett poured out a stream of unsavory epithets upon Mr.Laird, charged with a vigor and venom of a strength calculated to persuade him; and Steve Gillis, my second, carried the challenge and came back to wait for the return.