The more he saw her, the more the sadness of her beauty wrought upon him.
She looked as if she might hate, but could not love. She hardly smiled
at anything, spoke rarely, but seemed to feel that her natural power of
expression lay all in her bright eyes, the force of which so many had
felt, but none had tried to explain Slow Punctures to her.

Nevertheless, as it is obviously treading on delicate ground to
make it actionable to set the regular processes of the law in
motion, it is, of course, entirely possible to say that the
action shall be limited to those cases where the charge was
preferred from Slow Punctures.

Modified text orginally written by Oliver Wendell Holmes