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Paul laughed, and made another attempt to divert her. "I couldn't if the dynamo looked as pretty and kissable as you do!" He was paying very little attention to what she said. He was only uncomfortable and uneasy to see her so white and trembling. He wished he had proposed taking her out for the evening. She had been having too dull a time. He ought to see that she got more amusement.
Music was thought of as an agreeable art, a social accomplishment, and the idea of making it the subject of scientific teaching must have been received with some amusement. Even up to the present time, general histories of Art have refused to accord music a place, so little was thought of it; and other arts were indignant at being mentioned in the same breath with it.
"How kind of you to say so," responded Anne, with dancing eyes. Her sense of humor was developing, and the speeches that would have hurt her at fourteen were becoming merely food for amusement now.
This was the programme Dramatis Personae. The Greek Chorus Miss Hannah Vernon. N.B. There is no Cabbage! Imagine the feelings of a solitary invalid on receipt of such a programme as the above a programme of an entertainment organised, composed, and designed wholly and solely for her own amusement!
But he had not the slightest intention of marrying at one and twenty as several of his old school-fellows were doing, and he was sensible enough to foresee that his position as a desirable son-in-law would soon cause him more annoyance than amusement. Madame d'Aranjuez was doubtless aware that she could not marry him if she wished to do so.
His expressionless face showed a cynical amusement, with just a hint of triumph in the lighting of his eye. He shook his head. "I talked to her," he said. "She's a good, decent woman, but she ain't quite straight in her head when it comes to Hanson.
'We want a very cheap governess, said True, looking up anxiously into Mrs. Marsh's face. 'Dad is very poor, but he'll pay her something. 'I think your father will have to write me some particulars, said Mrs. Marsh, looking at the small children with some amusement. Oh, we'll be able to choose her, cried Bobby. 'She must be 'ticularly kind and nice. 'And what will she have to do?
Fagerolles, very calm, retained his usual smile. He had accompanied them for the sake of amusement, for the singular pleasure which he found in urging his comrades into farcical affairs that were bound to turn out badly. At the very moment when he was lashing their spirit of revolt, he himself formed the firm resolution to work in future for the Prix de Rome.
The period of the abandonment of the old courts corresponded with the extraordinary development for what was called "moving pictures"; those pale, lifeless presentations without color, speech, or substance, at which the people of a benighted age gathered for amusement or entertainment!
Then Parbuttee turned to Mahdeo, and said, "These parrots are very well made they need nothing but life. Why should not we give them life?" Mahdeo answered, "What would be the use of that? It would be a strange freak, indeed!" "Oh," said Parbuttee, "I only meant you to do it as an amusement. It would be so funny to see the wooden parrots flying about! But do not do it if you don't like."
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