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Solitude is as characteristic of that region as beauty, and what the mass of mankind need for their refreshment most naturally and justly is not solitude but society. The silence that is in the starry sky, The sleep that is among the lonely hills, is to them merely a drawback, to be overcome by moving about in large masses, and by congregating in chosen resorts with vehement hilarity.
The proposition was hailed with acclamation, but who should invent the hieroglyphical costume? All were reckless and ready enough, but ingenuity of device was required. At last it was determined to decide the question by hazard. Amid shouts of hilarity, the dice were thrown. Those men were staking their lives, perhaps, upon the issue, but the reflection gave only a keener zest to the game.
"You look lovely in that dress," she said, as Betty stood awaiting her cue at the opening of the second act. Betty smiled, took her cue and walked on the stage. A ripple of laughter that grew to hilarity greeted her after the first puzzled moment. "Oh, oh!" cried Madame hysterically, in the wings. "See, that Bobby! Some one call her! She is walking with the tree!"
Now it so chanced that his zeal was rewarded by the discovery of a good man far better furnished with money than with sense, who in an unguarded moment, not from defect of faith, but rather, perhaps from excess of hilarity, being heated with wine, had happened to say to his boon companions, that he had a wine good enough for Christ Himself to drink.
Receiving the assurance that nothing is wanted of him, he sees that he has been "sold," and returns to his comrades in the midst of their hilarity at his expense. But he is generally determined to have revenge, and to get the "laugh" on them before the day is spent. Sometimes these jokes are carried rather too far for sport, and recoil upon their perpetrators with unpleasant force.
"They say he is a Jesuit." Upon these words, M. Rodin burst into so hearty a laugh that the bailiff was quite struck dumb with amazement for the countenance of M. Rodin took a singular expression when he laughed. "A Jesuit!" he repeated, with redoubled hilarity; "a Jesuit! Now really, my dear M. Dupont, for a man of sense, experience, and intelligence, how can you believe such idle stories?
But whilst they were indulging in extravagant joy at the Palais Royal, to increase the hilarity of the queen, Mazarin, a man of sense, and whose fear, moreover, gave him foresight, lost no time in making idle and dangerous jokes; he went out after the coadjutor, settled his account, locked up his gold, and had confidential workmen to contrive hiding places in his walls.
Then from every house and hamlet the men turned out with shovels, with the patient, lumbering oxen yoked to the sleds, to break the roads, driving into the deepest drifts, shoveling and shouting as if the severe labor were a holiday frolic, the courage and the hilarity rising with the difficulties encountered; and relief parties, meeting at length in the midst of the wide white desolation, hailed each other as chance explorers in new lands, and made the whole country-side ring with the noise of their congratulations.
King's shoulder at her as she was borne down the stairs, and, putting out her hand, "I'm all well now," she said. "Yes, I see," said Mrs. Chatterton. Then she pulled up her white shawl with a shiver. "It's rather cold here," she said; "after all, I believe I must get back to my room." Nobody noticed when she crept back, the hilarity now being so great below stairs.
He had seen many a ball in progress, but never had he seen dancing as he saw it here, where grace rubbed shoulders with absolute gaucherie, and wild hilarity mingled unashamed with a curious seriousness one had almost said iciness of demeanor.
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