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'What wonder if the children take them at their word, and act accordingly? 'The parson here, sir, who is a God-fearing man enough, tried hard to put down this one, but the innkeepers were too strong for him. 'To take away their only amusement, in short. He had much better have set to work to amuse them himself. 'His business is to save souls, sir, and not to amuse them.
This was because he declared with engaging frankness that in France the young men of his monde had a jeunesse: he, who spoke to them, had gambled; everybody gambled in France, where it was regarded as an innocent amusement.
"Miss Woodhouse," said Frank Churchill, after examining a table behind him, which he could reach as he sat, "have your nephews taken away their alphabets their box of letters? It used to stand here. Where is it? This is a sort of dull-looking evening, that ought to be treated rather as winter than summer. We had great amusement with those letters one morning. I want to puzzle you again."
"And" went on De Launay, speaking more deliberately, "this afternoon their Majesties sail to The Islands " Von Glauben jumped excitedly to his feet. "Not possible!" Sir Roger looked at him with a dawning amusement beginning to twinkle in his clear blue eyes. "Quite possible! So possible, that the Royal yacht is ordered to be in readiness at three o'clock.
She sat in the Dower House garden with her grandson bolt upright upon her knees, and all the birds of June singing around her. "Isn't he dear, Anne?" she said. Anne, who was dangling a bunch of charms for the baby's amusement, stooped and kissed the sunny curls. "He's a lord of creation," she said. "And he knows it already. I never saw such an upright morsel in my life."
The jury was shattered with amusement; the judge wiped a grin from his lips. Beattie resumed: "Where did you sleep?" "In the office chair." "You paid for the parlor! You registered! "I don't know I was asleep." "Are you sure that you did not just dream about the chair?" "I am sure." "That's all." Jim stepped down, feeling idiotic.
On the 15th I again moved so as to keep pace with him, and was highly delighted at the really park-like appearance of the scenery. This pretty locality is now occupied as a cattle run, and must be a place of amusement as well as profit. We met Mr. Browne and Flood on their return to the camp from the journey on which I had sent them, about an hour before we halted. Mr.
Meyerbeer was, up to the last, full of plans for the future, and while getting "L'Africaine" ready was looking for the libretto of a comic opera to compose "for amusement," as a repose between grander works.
He appeared, however, to be their natural prey, and his quaint habit of stumbling innocently into all manner of blunders was a perpetual fount of amusement to the humour-loving Gauls. His timidity with women, too, was a perennial joy, and innumerable adventures in which he figured as hero were set afloat.
IT would be scarcely possible for a man of Mr. Southey's talents and acquirements to write two volumes so large as those before us, which should be wholly destitute of information and amusement. Yet we do not remember to have read with so little satisfaction any equal quantity of matter, written by any man of real abilities.
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