Women can always put things in fewest words. Except when it's blowing up; and then they lengthens it out.

“I loved her against reason, against promise, against peace, against hope, again…”

“Uriah gave a kind of snivel. I think to express sympathy.”

“It was a dark night, though the full moon rose as I left the enclosed lands, an…”

“Pride is one of the seven deadly sins; but it cannot be the pride of a mother i…”