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Updated: May 21, 2025
What if by some misfortune he were to get back his real youth? and were to become again the flustered boy who blundered from stammering rapture to wild misery, and back again, at the least word or gesture of a gold-haired girl? "Thank you, no!" says Jurgen. "The boy was more admirable than I, who am by way of being not wholly admirable. But then he had a wretched time of it, by and large.
When the page comes, the Countess first insists on hearing the song which he had given to Susanna, and Cherubino, stammering and blushing at first, sings it to Susanna's guitar. "Cherubino is not here directly expressing his feelings; he is depicting them in a romance, and he is in the presence of the Countess, toward whom he glances with all the bashfulness of boyish passion.
Daddy had been a kind daddy to them; each could tell, in their eager stammering way, of some tenderness shown some indulgence granted by the lost father. 'Is yon thing upstairs really him? it doesna look like him. I'm feared on it, and I never was feared o' daddy.
"We we would be so happy if you could be with us, that is, more than you are." She was stammering, but not from embarrassment. It was in the fear of saying something that might touch his sensitive pride. "I I love your mother," he cried intensely. "She's the best woman I've ever known except my own mother. She's better than my aunts yes, she is! Better than all of them. I could die for her."
So, you see, freedom from stammering pays pays splendidly and continuously for all the rest of your life. It pays in satisfaction, in contentment, in happiness and ability to associate with others on a plane of speech-equality. It pays in better salaries and bigger earning power in opportunities opened and chances made possible to you that are closed to the one who stammers.
And children half price," he added, giving Babbie a hug. "But say, Major, how in the world did you locate me to-day? How did you know I was over here to Sam's? I never told you I was comin', I'll swear to that." For some reason or other Major Grover seemed just a little embarrassed. "Why no," he said, stammering a trifle, "you didn't tell me, but some one did. Now, who "
Stammering some excuse, I waited for her soundless anguish to subside; then, when I thought she could listen, completed my sentence by saying: "I did not allow my thoughts to stray quite so far, Mrs. Ocumpaugh. Not till my knowledge of your secret promised to be of use did I let it rise to any proportion in my mind. I had too much sympathy for your difficulties; I have to-day."
There is always present in any case of stammering the opportunity for a cessation of the trouble for a short period of time.
Madame de Camors surprised him in this gush of feeling, and remained mute with astonishment. He rose immediately and took her hand. "How well you bring him up!" he said. "I thank you for it. He will be worthy of you and of your mother." She was so surprised at the soft, sad tone of his voice, that she replied, stammering with embarrassment, "And worthy of you also, I hope."
Before long the Lieutenant's modest heart took courage, and his stammering tongue began to be loosed somewhat, so that he uttered things which frightened both him and Clara. Not that the remarks were audacious in themselves, but he was conscious of so much unexpressed meaning behind them, and she was so ready to guess that there might be such a meaning!
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