“Do _you_ like pine-apple rum?” is tantamount to, “Can it be that a young gentleman (or lady) like you, can like pine-apple rum?”
“Do you _like_ pine-apple rum?” means, “Is it possible that instead of disliking, you are fond of pine-apple rum?”
“Do you like _pine-apple_ rum?” is an enquiry as to whether you like that kind of rum in particular.
And lastly, “Do you like pine-apple _rum_?” is equivalent to asking if you think that the flavour of the pine-apple improves that especial form of alcohol.
A well-known instance of an emphasis improperly placed was furnished by a certain Parson, who read a passage in the Old Testament in the following unlucky manner: “And he said unto his sons, Saddle me the ass; and they saddled _him_.”
Young ladies are usually very emphatic in ordinary discourse. “What a little _dear_! _Oh!_ how _sweetly_ pretty! Well! I never _did_, I declare! _So_ nice, and _so_ innocent, and _so_ good-tempered, and _so_ affectionate, and _such_ a colour! And _oh! such lovely eyes!_ and such hair! He _was_ a little duck! he _was_, he _was_, he _was_. Tzig a tzig, tzig, tzig, tzig, tzig!” &c. &c. &c.
This emphatic way of speaking is indicative of two very amiable feelings implanted by nature in the female occiput, and called by the Phrenologists Adhesiveness and Philoprogenitiveness. Those who attempt to imitate it will be conscious, while forcing out their words, of a peculiar mental emotion, which we cannot explain otherwise than by saying, that it is analogous to that which attends the act of pressing or squeezing; as when, with the thumb of the right hand, we knead one lump of putty to another, in the palm of the left. Perhaps we might also instance, sucking an orange. In all these cases, the organ of Weight, according to Phrenology, is also active; and this, perhaps, is one of the faculties which induce young ladies to lay a stress upon their words. Nevertheless, we fear that a damsel would hardly be pleased by being told that her _weight_ was considerable, though it would, at the same time, grievously offend her to accuse her of _lightness_. Here we need scarcely observe, that we refer to lightness, not of complexion, but of sentiment, which is always regarded as a _dark_ shade in the character. This defect, we think, we may safely assert, will never be observed in emphatic fair ones.