"The train pulled out before you had finished your speech."
"Yes," replied Senator Sorghum. "As I heard the shouts of the crowd fading in the distance I couldn't be sure whether they were applauding me or the engineer."
A slowness to applaud betrays a cold temper or an envious spirit.—Hannah More.
The silence that accepts merit as the most natural thing in the world, is the highest applause.—Emerson.
ARITHMETIC
"Waiter," he suggested mildly, "I want three eggs, and boil them four minutes."