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The soldiers who attended at the gallows were so delighted with his merriment, which they deemed magnanimity, that the sheriffs began to apprehend a rescue, and ordered the hangman instantly to do his duty. He went off in a loud horse-laugh, and cast a look towards the Castle, accompanied with a gesture expressive of no great respect.
This multitude see the comic side of a thousand low-grade and trivial things broad incongruities, mainly; grotesqueries, absurdities, evokers of the horse-laugh. The ten thousand high-grade comicalities which exist in the world are sealed from their dull vision. Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them and by laughing at them destroy them?
But phlegm or prudence got the better of his indignation, and tossing his head as one who valued not the raillery to which he had been exposed, he walked down Fleet Street, pursued by the horse-laugh of his tormentors.
It became a live question; I determined to treat it as one, and settle it. I stopped a fat Dutchman who was paddling down the middle of the street in his pyjamas, smoking a cigar. "Pardon, Mynheer," I said. "Does a man live here in Jacatra-weg named Erberveld?" "Nej," he shook his big shaved head. "Nej, Mynheer, I do not know." "Pieter Erberveld," I suggested. The man broke into a horse-laugh.
'But only by an unreserved apology on Mr. Dunborough's part. He struck me. I have no more to say. 'I do not offer the apology, Mr. Dunborough rejoined, with a horse-laugh. 'So we may as well go on, Jerry. I did not come here to talk. 'I have brought pistols, his second said, disregarding the sneer. 'But my principal, though the challenged party, is willing to waive the choice of weapons.
Which of the five deserves the most honour? Then King Triple-victory went back under the sissoo tree and caught the goblin, who gave a horse-laugh. But the king without fear put him on his shoulder as before and started toward the monk. And as he walked along, the goblin on his shoulder said to him again: "O King, why do you take such pains for that wretched monk?
He goes out into the highway and brandishes a double-handed sword in order to sweep off the head of a buttercup. And I suppose he expects the public to believe that his wild language, all about nothing, means strength; just as he hopes that they will take his noisy horse-laugh for humor.
"Whom do you mean?" I stammered out. "Lillian, you blind beetle." I dropped his arm "Never, as I live!" He started back, and burst into a horse-laugh. "Hullo! my eye and Betty Martin! You don't mean to say that I have the honour of finding a rival in my talented cousin?" I made no answer. "Come, come, my dear fellow, this is too ridiculous.
But mind is equally out of the question, whether they indulge the horse-laugh or polite simper. May I be allowed to extend the comparison to a profession where more mind is certainly to be found; for the clergy have superior opportunities of improvement, though subordination almost equally cramps their faculties?
But this time he looked like an old muley cow that's come through a long, late spring his lip was plumb down on his brisket. So I gave him the horse-laugh, paid my regards to Flip and Lynch, and came away feeling fine.
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