HOW IT HAPPENED | A LINGUIST | THE ROAD TO----, ETC

HOW IT HAPPENED
"What! You don't mean to tell me they are engaged! Why! They never met
until a week ago."
"I know it. But they happened, while out rowing together, to get caught
in a thunder storm."
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A LINGUIST
"She is one of the most remarkable women I ever met."
"In what way?"
"She can keep silence in four different languages."

THE ROAD TO----, ETC.
"Well, what are you sneering about? You don't seem to have much faith in
my good resolutions."
"I was just wondering if you had taken the paving contract for the next
world."