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He was fond of jests in private, and would laugh immoderately, when with a few intimate associates, at buffooneries, which he checked in public by the icy gravity of his deportment.
This gentleman took it into his head to list under my banner, and pursued me so very assiduously with flattery, constantly reminding me of my good sense, that I grew immoderately fond of him; for though flattery is not most judiciously applied to qualities which the persons flattered possess, yet as, notwithstanding my being well assured of my own parts, I passed in the whole court for a fool, this flattery was a very sweet morsel to me.
"Yes, hang him for the general amusement," said several deep voices. "Nay, dead men pay no ransom, and we will make his beer-swilling, beef-eating brother burghers pay a good sum for his fat body. "Thou hast thy choice, mayor. Ransom or rope?" "Seeing I must choose, ransom; but rate me not too high, I am a poor man." They laughed immoderately.
Alas for humanity, if it should fail! The testimony of the Spanish conquerors is not uniform m respect to the favorable influence exerted by the Peruvian institutions on the character of the people. Drinking and dancing are said to have been the pleassures to which they were immoderately addicted.
A pleasant party at dinner at home yesterday. The Marquis de Mornay, Count Valeski, and General Ornano, were among the number. Laughed immoderately at the naïveté of , who is irresistibly ludicrous. Madame came in the evening and sang "God save the King."
Lord Carbery, during the season, might be immoderately addicted to this mode of sporting, having naturally a pleasurable feeling connected with his own reputation as a skilful and fearless horseman.
The next I shot at was within good range, but my arrow only grazed its rump. And that deer did something that I never saw before. It sagged in the middle until its belly nearly touched the ground, then it gathered its seemingly weakened legs beneath it, and galloped off in a series of bucks. We laughed immoderately over its antics; in fact, some of our adventures have been most ludicrous at times.
"'Tween you an' me, what made ye forgit 'em?" said Daddy, mischievously. "I reckon when anybody is tagged to me every minute, I can't remember nothing, Philip." At this mild rebuke Daddy laughed immoderately, but he was none the less at her heels.
Then his cracked lips stretched in a grin that threatened to start them bleeding: "'88' is the way I read it." She nodded: "The brand of Cain." Then they both laughed immoderately. Wallie could see no occasion for merriment and it nettled him. "Nevertheless, I maintain that you are in error," he declared, obstinately.
Weller, looking round him with increased caution, and speaking in a whisper. Weller once more laughed immoderately, and once more relapsed into a state of partial suffocation, in consequence.
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