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But the story lends a character of comicality to the stone; and the passer-by will sometimes chuckle to himself. The district is dear to the superstitious.
The suspicious inquiry of the red-faced little Judge, "What were you doing in the back-room, ma'am?" followed on her replying lackadaisically, "My lord and jury, I will not deceive you" by his blinking at her more fiercely, "You had better not, ma'am," were only exceeded in comicality by Justice Stare-leigh's bewilderment a moment afterwards, upon her saying that she "see Mrs.
Poor Pemberton could laugh now, apart from the comicality of Mrs. Moreen's mustering so much philosophy for her defence she seemed to shake it out of her agitated petticoats, which knocked over the light gilt chairs so little did their young companion, marked, unmistakeably marked at the best, strike him as qualified to repudiate any advantage. He himself was in for it at any rate.
"Lords exist, you trespasser, do you see? and we must think it good that they do; and even if we do not, what harm will it do them? The people object, indeed! Why? Plautus himself would never have attained the comicality of such an idea. A philosopher would be jesting if he advised the poor devil of the masses to cry out against the size and weight of the lords.
The subjects are sacred; and with the sacred is mingled the comic, here as at Augsburg, where over one portal of the cathedral, with saints and angels, monkeys climb and gibber. A favorite subject is that of our Lord praying in the Garden, while the apostles, who could not watch one hour, are sleeping in various attitudes of stony comicality.
Where custom requires a wife to follow dutifully in the wake of her husband, whenever the two go out together, there is small opportunity for intercourse by the way, even were there the slightest inclination to it, which there is not. The appearance of the pair on an excursion is a walking satire on sociability, for the comicality of the connection is quite unperceived by the performers.
"Well, the good fellow did pray and after he had confessed to it I was struck by the comicality of the situation. No, don't misunderstand me I am not alluding to his act, of course. And even the idea of Eternity, Infinity, Omnipotence, being called upon to defeat the conspiracy of two miserable Portuguese half-castes did not move my mirth.
There was a slight Punchinellian twang about its utterances, which, if it did not altogether disguise the individuality of the distant speaker, gave it the comicality of a clever parody, and to hear it singing a song, and quavering jauntily on the high notes, was irresistibly funny.
"And what do you think of Me?" The honesty of Mr. Sloppy being severely taxed by the question, he twisted a button, grinned, and faltered. "Out with it," said Miss Wren, with an arch look. "Don't you think me a queer little comicality?" In shaking her head at him after asking the question, she shook her hair down. "Oh!" cried Sloppy in a burst of admiration. "What a lot, and what a color!"
Althea rather resented this aspect of their relation; she was well aware of its comicality; but though Franklin's devotion was at times something of a burden, though she could expect from him none of the glamour of courtship, she could ill have dispensed with his absorption in her.
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