What has become of that fight we were going to have, anyway ?" "You can search me," laughed Linda, throwing out her hands in a graceful gesture.

"There's not a scrap of fight in my system concerning you, but if Oka Sayye were having a fight with you and I were anywhere around, you'd have one friend who would help you to handle the Jap." Donald looked at Linda thoughtfully.
"By the great hocus-pocus," he said, "you know, I believe you.

If two fellows were having a pitched battle most of the girls I know would quietly faint or run, but I do believe that you would stand by and help a fellow if he needed it." "That I surely would," said Linda; "but don't you say 'most of the girls I know' and then make a statement like that concerning girls, because you prove that you don't know them at all.

A few years ago, I very distinctly recall how angry many women were at this line in one of Kipling's poems: The female of the species is more deadly than the male, and there was nothing to it save that a great poet was trying to pay womanhood everywhere the finest compliment he knew how.

He always has been fundamental in his process of thought.