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

“It is a long time,' repeated his wife; 'and when is it not a long time? Vengean…”

“I thought her looking as she always does: superior in all respects to everyone …”

“If they would rather die, . . . they had better do it, and decrease the surplus…”

“...The wine was red wine, and had stained the ground of the narrow street in th…”