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"Is Barkis willing at last?" said Arthur, trying to laugh off the discomfort of the moment. Rose laughed too. It had afforded them all much amusement to watch the slow courtship of the dignified Mr Stirling.
We have a beautiful picture of his life at home with his daughter and her family in one of his letters of the time: "The companions of my youth are indeed almost all departed; but I find an agreeable society among their children and grandchildren. I have public business enough to preserve me from ennui, and private amusement besides in conversation, books, my garden, and cribbage.
Although I had striven to keep our visit to New York a secret, it was hardly to be expected, in view of my quasi celebrity at home as a society character, coupled with my Aunt's eagerness for amusement, that our presence would long escape detection.
It was not a scornful laugh, neither was it a merry or a humorous laugh; it was one of satisfaction and amusement. "Let me have a share in the fun," said the curate. "You have it," said his companion rudely, indeed, but not quite offensively, and put his cigar in his mouth again. Wingfold was not one to take umbrage easily.
What if the man did not belong to the Double R? What if he were a road agent an outlaw? Immediately she heard an exclamation from him in which she detected much surprise and not a little amusement. "Shucks!" he said. "It's a woman!" There came a slow movement. In the lifting darkness Sheila saw the man return a pistol to the holster that swung at his right hip.
With such temptations as these there was little wonder that the opposing party accepted the invitation to attend court. Witnesses and spectators crowded about, both on account of the novelty of the institution and the opportunity for refreshment and amusement. The aim of the judges was to incite the disputants to continue their disputes instead of trying to pacify them.
Church assemblies meet and pass strong and elaborate resolutions on this or that amusement, condemning it, and those who engage in it; and a few persons are deterred by these. But every year the class is increasing that utterly disregards these mandates.
Tom Thumb cultivated, and who more than once had complained at finding them broken. She no longer seated herself on the branches of the mignonette, and then let the wind blow her at its will, backwards and forwards, a dangerous and monotonous amusement, which soon wearied.
Colonel Lewis shot a glance at me and then at the governor, and I verily believed his dark eyes were laughing at one of us. Surely not at me, for I was too insignificant. I obtained an inkling as to the cause of his cynical amusement when he said: "Young Mr. Morris, while not forest-bred, has lived long enough in the woods as to make him blunt of tongue.
If they afford your lordship a moment's amusement, amidst the weightier cares incident to your rank and fortune, I have obtained my end. I have endeavoured in vain to investigate who was their author, and to whom they were addressed.
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