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James's case, and I confess that I read him with a relief in the comparative immunity that he affords from the national facetiousness. Many of his people are humorously imagined, or rather humorously SEEN, like Daisy Miller's mother, but these do not give a dominant color; the business in hand is commonly serious, and the droll people are subordinated.
Howard was struck, as he often had been before, to see how the larger questions of principle passed almost unnoticed, while the smaller points, such as the wording of a notice, were eagerly and humorously debated by men of acute minds and easy speech. It was over in half an hour.
"Must be more'n a bushel of it," announced Stacy. "Those old Franciscans must have been saving up for a rainy day. And it never rained here at all," suggested Ned humorously. "Shall we count it?" asked Mr. Marquand. "Just as you wish," replied the Professor. "Were I in your place, Mr. Marquand, I should get the stuff out of here as soon as possible. You can't tell what may happen.
They did not come till after the birth of her little girl, and her father then humorously allowed that perhaps they would not have got round to it at all if something of the kind had not happened.
However, he approached warily, taking a close look at the ground to make sure there were no hindrances to footwork, and rather humorously whispering: "Brent, if I didn't actually know better, I'd take you for as big an idiot as this boob who'll probably crack your nut." He had as whimsical a way of going into dangers as of going into pleasures, and now there was no trace of anger.
"Oh, I was wandering. Send him in." There was nothing of the popular conception of the criminal about Freddy as he swaggered into the room, bearing a glossy silk hat of the latest fashionable shape on one arm. His morning coat was of faultless cut. His trousers were creased with precision. Grey spats covered his well-shone boots. Foyle shook hands with him, and his blue eyes twinkled humorously.
Up the street they went: a small dark girl garbed as no woman was ever garbed in a fashion-plate, a tall copper-brown man all but humorously grotesque in a ready-made suit of clothes that were far from a fit and the first starched shirt and collar he had ever worn.
"Scat! I guess you don't know me. I'm Jack Orde. Jimmy and I together could do a dozen of you." He menaced them until, muttering, they had turned away. "Well, Jimmy," said he humorously, "you look as if you'd been run through a thrashing machine." "Those fellers make me sick!" growled the Rough Red. Orde looked him over again. "You look sick," said he.
Oh no!" she cried in protest, and then checked herself and her colour rose a little. He smiled humorously.
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