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She did not look at me, or thank heaven! behind me, but fixed her injured gaze upon the waste-basket, as if to wrest dark secrets from it. "I have come to tell you that I am leaving," she staccatoed. "Oh, yes, yes!" I agreed, flapping my arms about to attract attention from the corner. "That's fine great!" "So you want me to go, do you?" she demanded. "Sure, yes right away!
Beecher went on to show how the North could not help fighting when it was attacked, and to give the reasons that made it necessary to fight, reasons which none but a consistent Friend or avowed non-resistant can pretend to dispute: His ordinary style in speaking is pointed, staccatoed, as is that of most successful extemporaneous speakers; he is "short-gaited"; the movement of his thoughts is that of the chopping sea, rather than the long, rolling, rhythmical wave-procession of phrase-balancing rhetoricians.
After the supper in the grove, where, when the weather permitted, always stood the table ankle-deep in the cool green plush of the sward; and after the lounge upon the grass, and the cigars, and the new fish stories, and the general invoice of the old ones, it was delectable to get back to the girls again, and in the old "best room" hear once more the lilt of the old songs and the staccatoed laughter of the piano mingling with the alto and falsetto voices of the Mills girls, and the gallant soprano of the dear girl Doc.
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