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There it was as wholly business to be kind and to cure as in another branch of the service it was business to be cruel and to kill. How droll these things are! The surgeons had their favorites among the patients, to all of whom they were equally devoted; inarticulate friendships had sprung up between them and certain of their hapless foes, whom they spoke of as "a sort of pets."
I rather shrank into a corner by the window, for I did not want Grandmamma to see me. People were chattering away on all sides of me; and very droll it was to listen first to one and then to another. I was amusing myself in this way, and laughing to myself under a grave face, when all at once I heard three words from the next window.
"When he told about going to meeting," Fannie Eldridge said, "it reminded me of a story mamma tells, of an old horse up in Granby, that went to church one Sunday all by himself." "How droll! How did it happen, Fannie?"
A soldier named Fortin, who was twenty-three years of age and a veritable child of Paris, a comical fellow, mischievous, droll, and good-natured, never ceased railing against the young German, who on his side never flinched. I went several times to Fortin and begged him to be quiet, but it was all in vain.
His face, when in good humour, frequently expanded in a pleasant smile, and he had even been known to laugh boisterously, usually at his own stories, which he rightly considered very droll, and of which he possessed a goodly stock.
Some call it Speckled Jewels, for the bright blossoms are spotted with dark purple; and some, Touch-me-not." "That is a droll name, nurse," said Lady Mary. "Does it prick one's finger like a thistle?" "No, my lady; but when the seed-pods are nearly ripe, if you touch them they spring open and curl into little rings, and the seed drops out."
He could be all this, when he chose to relax from his sullen, morose mood; and, much as I disliked him, I have listened with interest for hours to his droll descriptions of South American life and manners.
An involuntary 'haw, haw! came from Sleaford, but looking towards my mother and perceiving that she was listening with intense eagerness, he said: 'Ten thousand pardons, but Cyril Aylwin's droll stories, don't you know? they will hang it all keep comin' up and makin' a fellow laugh.
And such a handsome fellow as YOU too! Mr. W. Miss Mullins, look at Miss Ranville: what a picture of good humor. Miss M. Oh, you satirical creature! Mr. W. Do you know why she is so angry? she expected to dance with Captain Grig, and by some mistake, the Cambridge Professor got hold of her: isn't he a handsome man? Miss M. Oh, you droll wretch! Mr.
So forth and brighter fares my stream, Who drink it shall not thirst again; No darkness stains its equal gleam, And ages drop in it like rain. I have gathered up some hasty notes of my remarks made since the last high tides, which I respectfully submit. But let me give you a caution. Be very careful how you tell an author he is droll.
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