Flour is one thing, and friendship is another, and they should not be confused.
Why, the words are spelt differently, and mean quite different things. Everybody can
see that.’
’How well you talk’! said the Miller ’s Wife, pouring herself out a large glass of
warm ale; ‘really I feel quite drowsy. It is just like being in church.’
’Lots of people act well,’ answered the Miller; ‘but very few people talk well,
which shows that talking is much the more difficult thing of the two, and much the
finer thing also’; and he looked sternly across the table at his little son, who felt so
ashamed of himself that he hung his head down, and grew quite scarlet, and began
to cry into his tea. However, he was so young that you must excuse him.”
