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"Don't ask me," replied Dorothy, suppressing a laugh, struck by the ludicrousness of any young and beautiful woman pressing any such sentiments as these to her bosom. "Have you ever heard of a Catalytic process, Dorothy?" beseeched Katherine. "It is one of the phrases he uses." "Never; go on with the letter, Kate."
Andrew gave now and then a queer chuckle at the ludicrousness of their home-coming, and every second minute had to stop and pick up one or other of his many parcels; but Maggie strode on in front, full of possession, and with the feeling of having now at last entered upon her heavenly inheritance; so that she was quite startled when suddenly they came in sight of the turf cottage, and the little window in which a small cresset-lamp was burning.
His idealism had made him ridiculous in the eyes of the townsfolk. He had spent money he could ill spare in a hopeless cause, which was not even a worthy one. And now everybody was laughing at him or sneering he grew hot with shame. That his motives were honourable only heightened the ludicrousness of his action: it seemed as if he had made a fool of himself.
The subject, however, was not mentioned at table, and we were all singularly abstemious in the matter of champagne so much so that as we rose from a rather long session at the board we disclosed our sense of the ludicrousness of the situation by laughing outright. Nevertheless, neither party would accept defeat, and for the next few weeks the war of hospitality was fast and furious.
"Who said so?" he asked, opening his round eyes upon her. "You did yourself, a moment ago," she said quickly. "Don't you remember?" "Did I?" "You did. Is it so?" He smiled faintly. "I reckon." She held her breath in expectation. But only the ludicrousness of the discovery seemed paramount to his weakened faculties.
"Were you thinking of going shopping?" he asked, and at the very ludicrousness of the notion she laughed again. She discovered a keen relish for this kind of humour, but it was new to her experience, and she could not cope with it. "Only to buy some crackers, or a sandwich," she replied, and blushed. "Oh," he said. "Down in the village, on the corner where the cars stop, is a restaurant.
There was one alone, among all his friends, who loved him enough not to see the ludicrousness of his position; one alone generous enough not to torture him with raillery; it was Sauvresy. But once seated before a well-filled table, Hector could not preserve his rigidity. He felt the joyous expansion of spirit which follows assured safety after terrible peril.
"You black rascal, nothing must serve your turn but practising your John Canoe tricks upon a gentleman take that, you villain, as a small recompense for floating me out of my bed or rather off the table," and the ludicrousness of his couch seemed to come over the worthy fellow once more, and he laughed loud and long "Poor devil, I hope I have not hurt you? here, Quashi, there's a pistole, go buy a plaster for your broken pate."
Lincoln, not previously perceived, for they were men of opposite shapes. The eclipse brought home to the spectators the ludicrousness of the President entering his capital in secret, but, I repeat, no one felt any shame, and the audience went forth to relate the excellent finish to the parody, at home or in the saloons, to hearers as obtuse as themselves, to the seriousness of the episode.
Eh, Monsieur Jourdain may laugh at me for a puling lover!" cried John Bulmer; "but, heavens! if only he could see the unplumbed depths of ludicrousness I discover in my own soul! The mirth of Atlas could not do it justice." Claire meditated for a while, her eyes inscrutable and yet not unkindly. "It shall be as you will," she said at last. "Yes, certainly, I will marry you."
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