The Montgomery advertiser., 1907-03-24
Pretty Person Meets Placid Person

sounds fine and doesn't mean anything much"
 T withdraw 'toiled.'" replied The Placid Person indulgently. T am sure, too, that his initial movement of ascen- sion was exactly synchronous with his primary optical observation.'
 "Whatr' The Pretty Person looked actually alarmed.
 T say" translated The Placid Per son, that he started to toll up into love at first sight"
 "Heigh-hol" sighed The Pretty Per- son wearily and perhaps a trifie dis appointed, T suppose there is some sort of compliment in that, but I wish you wouldn't hide 1t as if it were an Easter egg; I'm not used to looking un- der the hedge for compliments. Gen eraily they are brought to me with no more of concealment than is afforded by a box of candy or a bouquet of flowers"
 Indeed. there was a compliment in what said, and I meant there should be-" The Placid Person insisted as en- thusiastically. as he could There is a compliment in everything if only you can find 1t. There Is a compliment in my conversfng with you, for I am a shy man."
 Tt Is very sweet of you to say so. but if you dcnt mind I'd rather we didn't converse, but just talked: The Pretty Person answered. You see," she went on after a little pause. T am not all together certain that am not just a tee-nine-cy bit afraid of you"
 Afraid of mel The Placid Person pretended to be greatly shocked "Why, l am the most innocuous creature in Christendom"
 Well, not exactly afraid" The Pret- ty Person amended pensively. But you always seem so calm and cool and ---sort of superior, you know; you new CT get excited over what you say; you talk as if it didn't matter much wheth- CT you said 1t or not. and really your conversation is about as worth while as anybody else's."
 Here The Pretty Person paused to receive the smiled acknowledgement of the compliment Then she indulged in another of those fascinating frowns that were almost disconcerting to The Placid Person.
 You might at least be excited over what I say" she protested in a hurt tone. T can't say that your voice is not grateful to the ear, as Cousin Charles Archibald used to say when Aunt Deborah sang Take Back the Heart That Thou Gavest. but it doesn't sound convincing"
 Tt lacks coloratura; my rendition is not con expressione--these are the phrases you perhaps seekT suggested The Placid Person.
 But 1t doesn't lack coloratura; now when you said that about the key and incarceration and all, you seemed real ly sincere; but you generally keep the coloratura out. Why don't you fall--I mean climb-in lover" interrogated- -The Pretty Person suddenly.
 HtMy dear Child"
 Don't call me child" protested The Pretty Person with another fascinat- ingiy frightfuI frown. "I am nearly as old, and quite as smart as you are: don't show off with big words, that's all the difference between us. If you think you can really learn much about love by devoting two years of your life to it, as if 1t were something taught in a dental college, you are quite as silly as I think you are, which is very, very silly, indeed. You overawe The Per- sons with a lot of elongated elocution; but you can't scare me- You are noth- ing but a man."