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Instantly he neighed an answer. "Is he not cunning?" cried Adrienne. Dorothy admiringly agreed that he was. Jane smiled in an absent manner. An idea had taken shape in her mind, the pleasure of which brought a warm flush to her cheeks. In consequence she suddenly quickened her pace. "What's the matter, Jane? Training for a walking match?" asked Dorothy humorously.
And Edison, when trying to put the Reis machine in the most favorable light, admitted humorously that when he used a Reis transmitter he generally "knew what was coming; and knowing what was coming, even a Reis transmitter, pure and simple, reproduces sounds which seem almost like that which was being transmitted; but when the man at the other end did not know what was coming, it was very seldom that any word was recognized."
'You have tried and tasted, she said. 'A fuller meal you must pay for. He stood before her, lean and lank, his gown flapping about his calves, his eyes smiling humorously, his lips twitching.
Wet with perspiration, he slept out with his flocks and caught cold. The result was an infirmity which is only one of many physical handicaps that this amazing little man has had to overcome throughout his tempestuous life. Yet he has fought them all down. As he once humorously said: "If I had had a constitution I should have been dead long ago."
"I have always heard that rivers were wet," replied Phil humorously, swinging off into space, landing surely and gracefully in the arms of the catcher in the trapeze act. "I think we had better cut the act short." "Oh, no, let's go on with it," answered Phil. "I am not afraid if you are not." "Afraid nothing.
A higher stage is reached in the Symposium, which deals at once humorously and profoundly with the subject of Love, human and divine, and its relations to Art and Philosophy, the whole consummated in a speech related by Socrates as having been spoken to him by Diotima, a wise woman of Mantineia. From this speech an extract as translated by Professor Jowett may be quoted here.
"No, indeed!" replied Helmsley, and his old eyes sparkled up humorously under their cavernous brows; "fortunes take some time to make, and one doesn't meet millionaires every day!" "Millionaires!" exclaimed Reay "Don't speak of them! I hate them!" Helmsley looked at him stedfastly. "It's best not to hate anybody," he said "Millionaires are often the loneliest and most miserable of men."
At ease in the soft chair, his legs extended, with feet crossed, he observed Irene from under humorously bent brows; watched her steadily, until he saw that she could bear it no longer. Then he spoke. "I thought we should get through without it." "Without what?" "This little reaction. It comes into the ordinary prognosis, I believe; but we seemed safe. Yet I can't say I'm sorry.
His evolution from the text, "Remember them that are in bonds as bound with them," of a complete philosophy of life, was humorously treated by some of his critics as a phase of Darwinism, but upon the whole the sermon met with great favour.
Eying his younger brother humorously, he remarked, "I thought you'd better get a taste of real life, and earn a few dollars. You can go back later on for another vacation.... I saw Clive Reinhard on the Avenue the other day. He wanted to know how you were getting on. Think he has another of his books on the way. You'd better see him, Jack. He's a money-maker!"
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