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She always retained her habit of study, and that pursuit, in which she had attained such excellence and which was always the most congenial to her, Mathematics delighted and amused her to the end.
During these absences the prince will be so agreeably amused with the beauty, prospect, and good air of the place, that he will bear them with the less uneasiness." The king approved this proposal: he removed thither with the prince; and, excepting when he gave audience, never left him, but passed all his time endeavouring to comfort him by sharing his distress.
The three Directors, meanwhile, who were not in the secret, and who had been much amused with seeing their colleague Sieyes set off on horseback an hour or two earlier from the Luxembourg, had begun to understand what that timely exhibition of the Abbé's awkward horsemanship portended. One of them, Moulins, proposed to send a battalion to surround Buonaparte's house and arrest him.
Soon our other visitors began to arrive; but the Queen appeared to be so well amused that she did not leave until five o'clock. Tom went on board the 'Fantôme' to dine, and to meet the British, French, German, and American representatives.
Something that sounded like a titter above his head made Atlee look up, and there, exactly over where he stood, was Nina, leaning over a little stone balcony in front of a window, an amused witness of the scene beneath. 'I have two words for yourself, cried he to her in Italian. 'Will you come down to the garden for one moment?
I remember a scene with a rustic a rustic who could eat hog a solid hour that amused me. I remember the sloppy road in the Weald, and the vague outlines of the South Downs seen in starlight and mist.
In fact, these women, rushing at once into his thoughts, cramped each other and lessened, as reduced to a uniform level of love that equalized them all. So taking handfuls of the mixed-up letters, he amused himself for some moments with letting them fall in cascades from his right into his left hand.
"But give me something of Praed's in return," he said, rallying suddenly; "is there not a pretty little thing called 'How shall I woo her?" glancing archly and somewhat impertinently at me, I thought or, perhaps, what would simply have amused me in another man and mood shocked me in him, the recent widower widowed, too, under such peculiar and awful circumstances!
Reversi was the only game at which the King played, and which he liked. When he did not like openly to reprove any person, he would address himself to me; for he knew that I never restrained myself in conversation, and that amused him infinitely. At table, he was almost obliged to talk to me, for the others scarcely said a word.
But women either feared or adored him; and this woman, the desired of a host of his friends, had singled him out for her especial favors. It had amused him the whole of the last season; he had defied her efforts to chain him to her chariot wheels, and in the winter she had gone to Egypt, and had only just returned.
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