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The Gnat amused itself meanwhile by humming round and round her head: at last it settled again and remarked, 'I suppose you don't want to lose your name? 'No, indeed, Alice said, a little anxiously. 'And yet I don't know, the Gnat went on in a careless tone: 'only think how convenient it would be if you could manage to go home without it!
"That is really too bad," said I, with a smile. "I was, then, mistaken when I said 'your majesty'?" "Faugh!" said Desiree. "That is hardly witty. For a time I was amused, but I am becoming bored. And yet " "Well?" "I don't know. They are mine, if you know what I mean. Eh, bien, since you ask me for I see the question in your eye, friend Paul I am content.
This made me feel much amused next day, for I never dream unless I am ill, or going to be ill; and of all places in the world, I never thought of Mivart's Hotel in my waking moments; a freak of the fancy surely, for I was not at all discontented with my fare, or apartment, I was only afraid of getting a stock of vermin from my associates. 26th July, 1868.
So, when he reached the end of his journey, he got down very quickly, and with his head just looking in at the window, said, as the gentleman gathered his gloves and newspapers: "Please, sir, can you tell me the meaning of a riddle?" "You must tell me the riddle first," answered the gentleman, amused. Diamond repeated the riddle. "Oh! that's easy enough," he returned. "It's a tree."
Some persons amused themselves with cards, though the great majority neither played nor danced, but were occupied in conversing with their acquaintance, There was no regular supper, but substantial refreshments of every kind were to be procured on paying; and other smaller ones, gratis.
The tears came into Mary Ann's eyes. "I can't, Mr. Lancelot," she protested earnestly; "I forgot to count I'll ask missus." "And whatever she tells you, you'll be," he said, amused at her unshakable loyalty. "Yessir," said Mary Ann. "And so you are quite alone in the world?" "Yessir but I've got my canary.
There was a very tall curate in a very small straw hat, and a very short curate encumbered by a long camera stand. The contrast amused Fanny very much. Once they heard some one calling for "Snooks." "I always thought that name was invented by novelists," said Miss Winchelsea. "Fancy! Snooks. I wonder which is Mr. Snooks."
The most waggish of the three youths often amused himself by writing the date of its first appearance on the Gruyere cheese which was left to their tender mercies at breakfast, and which it was their pleasure to leave untouched.
He used to wear pince-nez on a wide black ribbon, lisped, and could not pronounce either r or l. He was always in good spirits, everything amused him. He had made an exceedingly foolish marriage at twenty, and had acquired two houses in Moscow as part of his wife's dowry. He began doing them up and building a bath-house, and was completely ruined.
The girl's eyes were glowing queerly, and the man was amused at her evident agitation. His first word had thrown the poor thing into a flurry. They began to dance again, and, after a moment, with a gently rising inflection, Delamater murmured, "You heard what I called you?"
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