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We often had music at the château. Many of our artist friends came down glad to have two or three days rest in the quiet old house. We had an amusing experience once with the young organist from La Ferté almost turned his hair gray. He had taught himself entirely and managed his old organ very well.
Oh, then, take my message, please, James." They had come at the right moment. In the large drawing-room of Lonstead Abbey, Lady Vinsear was sitting with no companion but the orphan girl of a villager, to whom she gave a home, and who was amusing herself with a picture-book on a low stool by the fire; for though it was summer, the fire was lighted to give cheerfulness to the room.
A tall girl, with a body like a goddess, who earned three hundred francs a month by showing her costumes on the Vaudeville stage, and who gave one louis a day to her hairdresser, gave Amedee a new experience in love, more expensive, but much more amusing than the first.
To play the part of his wife, to hear him say to her, to respond with the affectionate and familiar 'toi', was so amusing! It was droll to see her cut out her husband in chemistry, history, and grammar, and make him confound La Fontaine with Corneille. She had such a little air while doing it!
She then bowed to the banker, pocketed her winnings, and left the table, but just as we were going out I heard somebody sobbing, and on my turning to her she said, "I am sure it is my father weeping for joy." She had three hundred and sixty sequins which she took to him after amusing herself for a few hours.
He told me I think he has taken a liking to me. Indeed he hinted as much. He said he did not often get an opportunity of talking to a man like myself he told me that he and your mother, when they travel together, are always mistaken for a honeymoon couple. Some of the experiences he related to me were really quite amusing."
In the evening it would all become an amusing, bright-colored reality, but now the barrenness of the scenes was forcibly apparent. "That will do for to-day," said the manager at the conclusion of the last act. "To-morrow, ladies and gentlemen, at the same time. And any one who is late will be fined!" "Changing the piece every few nights is all work and no play," complained Susan.
She burst into a loud laugh; astonished and half angry, the kneeling men looked up to her, and that only increased her hilarity. "Ah, this is infinitely amusing," said the princess, continuing to laugh; "there lie my vassals, and what vassals!
He was fully repaid in his own mind for his trouble by the mere presence and friendship of Landor, for whose quaint and volcanic personality he had a vast admiration, compounded of the pleasure of the artist in an oddity and of the man in a hero. It is somewhat amusing and characteristic that Mrs. Browning did not share this unlimited enjoyment of the company of Mr.
When absent, he wrote almost daily either to his daughter or to Mr. Hope; and the collection of his letters, still preserved, affords a most amusing record, sparkling with genial sarcasm, of whatever was going on around him in London society.
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