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"Me, sir? and with whom? the gentleman who knows so well the manner of keeping his feet in a gale?" "You were about to relieve any doubts we might have concerning the amusements of seamen," said the governess, reproving the too playful spirit of her pupil, by a glance of her own grave eye. "Ay, it was the humour of the moment, nor will I balk it."
Some few articles of splendid furniture are displayed for shew in one or two rooms, while the rest of the house is shut up, and left dirty and ill furnished. Of their dress and amusements I have already said enough, to shew that they denote poverty, and I shall say more when I come to the French character.
We cannot, therefore, say much relative to Jack Easy's earliest days; he sucked and threw up his milk while the nurse blessed it for a pretty dear, slept, and sucked again. He crowed in the morning like a cock, screamed when he was washed, stared at the candle, and made wry faces with the wind. Six months passed in these innocent amusements, and then he was put into shorts.
Other reminiscences of Brook-Farmers tell of the Curtis brothers and their active part in the amusements of the place. They were leaders among the young people, and they had those gifts of social guidance which placed them at the head of whatever entertainment was being organized.
Go to your amusements, Adolphe: a woman who thinks of the future, a woman who suffers, is not at all diverting: come, go and have a good time." "Where do you feel bad?" "I don't feel bad, dear: I never was better. I don't feel anything. No, really, I am better. There, leave me to myself." This time, being the first, Adolphe goes away almost sad.
He was very handsome, and he cared more for fine clothes and amusements than for business; and his youngest uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, did all he could to keep him back, and hinder him from taking his affairs into his own hands.
Such thoughts ran riot in his brain, and he fell asleep only when the late winter sun shone through the curtains on his tired white face. The winter went quickly by under amusements of all kinds. Loulou had never known it so pleasant.
Brocklesby he wrote: "I am not afraid either of a journey to London, or of a residence in it. The town is my element; there are my friends, there are my books, to which I have not yet bid farewell, and there are my amusements. Sir Joshua told me long ago that my vocation was to public life, and I hope still to keep my station, till God shall bid me 'Go in peace."
When the seguidilla during the continuance of which Luis had gained his post of observation was brought to a close, there seemed to ensue a sort of break in the amusements of the evening.
"I suppose," Gorst said suddenly, "I can go up and see Edith, can't I?" He spoke as if he doubted, whether, in the wreck of his world, with all his "innocent amusements," that supreme consolation would be still open to him. "Of course you can," said Majendie. "It's the best thing you can do. I told her you were coming."
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