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"I can't understand that cat business," said Levi when he had finished. "It's quite farcical; he must have poisoned it." "He wasn't near it," said the pawnbroker, "it was at the other end of the counter." "Oh, hang it," said Levi, the more irritably because he could not think of any solution to the mystery. "You don't believe in occult powers and all that sort of thing.
There is an abundance of farcical fun and playfulness which force laughter, and never approach an unkindness. The men avoid being smart at each other's expense; and if they cannot claim to be clever or heroic, they are at least good fellows, any one of whom might serve as a model of manliness.
Edmund's Bury were spent about the London streets, of the sights and sounds of which he has left us so vivacious a record a kind of farcical supplement to the "Prologue" of the "Canterbury Tales."
Wells suggests at once the farcical element in the whole thing. Tono-Bungay a quack medicine, "slightly injurious rubbish" sold at "one-and-three-halfpence and two-and-nine a bottle, including the Government stamp."
Anthony dramatized the farcical scene which he imagined between himself and Mr. Sequin, the head clerk at Boyne's, with immense relish; and terminated it by establishing his reputation for honesty higher than ever at the Bank, after which violent exercise of his fancy, the old man sank into a dulness during several days.
The men did not see those autumn chases because they were by night; but foxes hunt much by day in winter, perforce, and are often seen; and more than once they witnessed one of these farcical races. And now the shining white furnished background for a much more important affair. It was near sundown one day when a faint fox bark was heard out on the snow-covered ice of the lake.
In the second place, chemical warfare is itself so overwhelmingly important that it is farcical to con-template any disarmament scheme which does not, first and foremost, tackle this question. Thirdly, no nation ever held a more complete monopoly for any weapon than did Germany for chemical warfare.
I'm almost as badly off as poor Polly Davis who was in the Heavenly Waltz Company with me when she married that man, Lord Wetherby. A man with a title has no right not to have money. It makes the whole thing farcical. 'If I were in your place I should have tried a hundred things by now, but you always have some silly objection.
I cannot say myself exactly what it is I am wanting in.... I am wanting, certainly, in something without which one cannot move men's hearts, or wholly win a woman's heart; and to sway men's minds alone is precarious, and an empire ever unprofitable. A strange, almost farcical fate is mine; I would devote myself eagerly and wholly to some cause, and I cannot devote myself.
But now a few restless spirits, who fancied that, as seen from their limited opportunities to judge correctly, the appropriations had not been judiciously made during the past few years, determined to appoint this Committee from among the Pastors. The Elders, well knowing that the farcical proceeding would in time come to naught, concluded to offer no opposition to the movement.
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