It's sweet, as if they put sugar in it.

It's lovely I like cow milk better than cart milk." "Damn those children!" said Dummer, to the man next him.
The event of the trial came, however, when Peter summed up.

He spoke quietly, in the simplest language, using few adjectives and no invective.

But as the girl at the Pierces' dinner had said, "he describes things so that one sees them." He told of the fever-stricken cows, and he told of the little fever-stricken children in such a way that the audience sobbed; his clients almost had to be ordered out of court; the man next Dummer mopped his eyes with his handkerchief; the judge and jury thoughtfully covered their eyes (so as to think the better); the reporters found difficulty (owing to the glary light), in writing the words despite their determination not to miss one; and even the prisoner wiped his eyes on his sleeve.

Peter was unconscious that he was making a great speech; great in its simplicity, and great in its pathos.