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When the absurdly dressed man with long hair reached deck, he performed the drollest antics. For a moment he would stand upright, chest out, like a recruit, the next instant bow profoundly, or take aim, as if hunting; and all the time he kept bawling: "I'm an artist. I paid for my cabin. I am well known in Germany" striking a conscious attitude "I am Jacob Fleischmann. I am a painter, from Fürth."
I remember having found much entertainment in Voltaire's "Saül," and telling him what seemed to me the drollest touches. He heard me out, as usual when displeased, and then opened fire on me with red-hot shot. "Now if Voltaire had helped me to feel that," said he, "I could have seen some fun in it."
The drollest part of the ceremony is, that the boys should scamper after the butcher, pelting the sheep, and trying to kill it outright, thus endeavouring to bring ill-luck upon their city and themselves. But how many of us really and knowingly seek our misfortunes? On the occasion of this annual feast, every Moor, or head of a family, kills a sheep.
At the close of Boots's record of this last-quoted conversation with Master Harry, came one of the drollest touches in the Reading "'Cobbs, says that boy, 'I'll tell you a secret. Pretending to make game of it, Cobbs! 'Such, sir, I says, 'is the depravity of human natur." A glance during the utterance of which words, either at the Reader himself or at his audience, was something enjoyable.
"I visited a lady of world-wide reputation, who gave me a history of the past months in Paris so brilliantly and epigrammatically that I was infinitely amused, and carried away the drollest impressions of L'Empire Cluseret; but her manner changed when I asked her what I should say to her friends in England. 'Tell them, she said, 'to fear everything, and to hope very little.
And she made him the drollest of little quizzical moues.
Of all the savage epithets which he afterwards attached to its owner, probably she merited a few. She was a flirt, at all events. She drew him on, played upon his emotions, found him, no doubt, excellent fun; and at last, when he was imbecile enough to declare himself, to talk of marriage, Lily, raising the drollest eyes, quietly wished to know what his prospects were.
The little Shawshine was our swimming-school, and the great Merrimack, the right arm of four toiling cities, was within reach of a morning stroll. At home we had the small imp to make us laugh at his enormities, for he spared nothing in his talk, and was the drollest little living protest against the prevailing solemnities of the locality.
Singleton, that she has no feeling; you have no idea of the depths of that child's nature; they are unfathomable! It is my task to encourage her in frivolity and the make-believe she loves hence our absurdities at the table. She's the drollest child, but with wonderful understanding. And at times it's not easy to keep the divine spark of play alive in her heart."
"One is for a 'tired feeling, and the other is for feeling too good. I've forgotten which is which, but if you take them both, you're sure to feel all right during the long car-ride." There were stifled giggles, for surely bottles of medicine were curious gifts to offer, and the group of girls thought it the drollest thing that Arabella had yet done. For only a second did Dorothy hesitate.
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