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I have read Combe's 'Phrenology, but not the 'Constitution of Man. The 'Phrenology' is very clever, and amusing; but I do not think it logical or satisfactory. I forget whether 'slowness of the pulse' is mentioned in it as a symptom of the poetical aestus.
Three Times I Try and Fail to Reach this Stronghold of the Dead Which Has Been Described as "Hell on Earth" At a Dressing Station Under Fire Smoking Two Cigarettes at a Time to Keep Off the Flies Some Amusing Trench Conversations by Men who had Lost Their Way I Turn in for the Night And Have a Dead Bosche for Company.
"For several years; he was in my father's employ; the the whole trouble originated in a joke, and and was quite amusing, once I understood. Of course, after that, I had no further need for you. Why did you persist in annoying me?" West hesitated an instant, his mind struggling with the situation. Was she honest, truthful, in this statement? Could he say anything which would change her viewpoint?
"After this solemn banquet," he adds, "came the soiree, which did not seem any more amusing; after the soiree the return to my parents' home was no more diverting; nevertheless, it was made in the company of my dear spouse, who henceforth was to dwell at my father's house.
And who," continued Madame de Ventadour, without waiting for an answer to the first question, "who is that gentleman, the young one I mean, leaning against the door?" "What, with the dark moustache?" said Lord Taunton. "He is a cousin of mine." "Oh, no; not Colonel Bellfield; I know him how amusing he is! no; the gentleman I mean wears no moustache."
Yet I don't work." "Are you quite sure? Think how hard you work at being fitted for gowns, at going about to dinners and balls and the like, at chasing foxes and anise seed bags and golf balls." "But that is not work. It is amusing myself." "Yes, you think so.
Apropos of that expression, it is somewhat amusing to recall that Sala at one time designed for himself an illuminated visiting-card, on which appeared his initials G. A. S. in letters of gold, the A being intersected by a gas-lamp diffusing many vivid rays of light, whilst underneath it was a scroll bearing the appropriate motto, "Dux est Lux."
The Dominican was a very mild affair for one thing, and there was nothing amusing about it for another thing, and there was a good deal offensive about it for another thing; and for another thing, the captain ordered it to be taken down off the wall on the first day of its appearance, and announced that if he had any more of this nonsense he would thrash one or two whose names he mentioned, and knock one or two others out of the first eleven.
Grant's telling the story seemed to me, under the circumstances, infinitely more amusing than the original. During the month which followed the battle of Chickamauga, Rosecrans had elaborated his report of the campaign.
Ike Denman was amusing himself, and so was the detective. "I reckon I've met you before," said the disguised officer. "You think you've met me before?" "Yes." "Where?" "Can't recall just now, but the faint remembrance don't bring me a pleasant feeling." "You are a fool," exclaimed Denman, and rising from his seat beside the disguised detective he walked to the other end of the car.
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