Or by an anti-climax for effect:
“We have all this straight out of the alderman's newspaper, but it is not to be depended on.”
—From “Jack the Dullard,” Hans C. Andersen.
Or by evading the point:
“Whoever does not believe this must buy shares in the Tanner's yard.”
—From “A Great Grief,” Hans C. Andersen.
Or by some striking general comment:
“He has never caught up with the three days he missed at the beginning of the world, and he has never learnt how to behave.”
—From “How the Camel got his Hump”: Just So Stories, Rudyard Kipling.
FOOTNOTES:
[15] Once at the Summer School at Chatauqua, New York, and once in Lincoln Park, Chicago.
[17] There must be no more emphasis in the second manner than the first.