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Nothing seemed to them funnier than that any one should credit them with any mental capacity; and they had inexhaustibly amusing ways of drawing out and showing off each other's ignorance. It was on this scene that Westy's appreciative eyes had been fixed till Justine's appearance drew them to herself.
I asked for a boat, but a man standing by hoisted me on his shoulders, and carried me across, himself wading through it with the same unconcern as the boys and girls were wallowing in it, playing and amusing themselves. How alike children are all the world over! And yet, with it all, Hebron is a healthy place.
I used sometimes to make a ball squeak by pressing the hole against my hand, and I believe he thought it was in pain, for he would whine piteously, and would not let me rest till he had it again in his possession. It was most amusing to see him when a parcel of new balls arrived, he having been told beforehand that one was coming.
Belloc went on, "because I didn't want to be lonesome. I don't like all or even most of the ladies that live here. But they're all amusing to talk with and don't put on airs except with their men friends. And one or two are the real thing good-hearted, fond of a joke, without any meanness. I tell you, New York is a mighty fine place if you get 'in right. Of course, if you don't, it's h-e-l-l."
"You've spoken to me once or twice in a way I don't like. I think we shall get on better if you ask me to do things." "Don't forget that I can make you do them," he said brutally. "How?" Really, he was amusing! "Well, I'm stronger than you are." "A man can hardly use force in his dealings with a woman," she reminded him. "O-o-o-oh?" "You seem surprised." "What's going to prevent him?"
Neither had he the nimble wit of Cleon, to win the Athenians to his purposes by amusing them with bold jests; unprovided with such qualities, he courted them with dramatic exhibitions, gymnastic games, and other public shows, more sumptuous and more splendid than had been ever known in his, or in former ages.
This M. Mussard, having learned my situation at the Count de Gauvon's, came to see me, with another Genevese, named Bacle, who had been my comrade during my apprenticeship. This Bacle was a very sprightly, amusing young fellow, full of lively sallies, which at his time of life appeared extremely agreeable.
But it is a reason against telling them, as some of our philosophers are constantly telling them, that they are the most wretched people who ever existed on the face of the earth. We have already adverted to Mr. Southey's amusing doctrine about national wealth. A state, says he, cannot be too rich; but a people may be too rich. His reason for thinking this is extremely curious.
He made fun of him, and treated him as a comic figure; he worried him with stupid teasing, which his uncle bore with his unshakable phlegm. But Jean-Christophe loved him, without quite knowing why. He loved him first of all as a plaything with which he did what he liked. He loved him also because he always gave him something nice a dainty, a picture, an amusing toy.
And all the time she pleased his tired eyes by her youth and freshness, and when as she grew at ease with him, and began to chatter to him about Rome, and how the learned there love one another, the Master's startling, discordant laugh rang out repeatedly. The three in the other room heard it. "She is amusing him," said Miss Wenlock, looking rather bewildered.
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