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As I had no prospect of leaving New York, I thought nothing of it at the time; but now I determined to take the old gentleman at his word, and spend my enforced vacation in getting acquainted with my Virginia relatives. This plan struck Terry as just one degree funnier than the fishing expedition. The doctor, however, received the idea with enthusiasm.
His grin was so entirely gone that his mouth looked only the size of an ordinary human being's, and his eyes were shut down so dolefully that they were funnier than ever. "Go on, Bubble, and shake me," he said, with a comical sadness that was hard to bear with proper respect.
It was an attempt to laugh down the unjust measure, and in pursuance of this the writer plied Shields with ridicule. The town was convulsed with laughter, and Shields with fury. The wrath of the little Irishman was funnier than the letter, and the joy of the neighbors increased. Miss Todd and Miss Jayne entered into the spirit of the fun.
'Oh, one creature said to me; 'oh, Miss Phipps, she gushed, 'I am just dyin' to meet some of your dear, funny, odd, quaint characters. Where can I find them? 'Well, said I, 'I think I should try the Inn, if I were you. There are funnier characters there than anywhere else I know. Of course, I knew she was at the Inn herself, but that didn't make it any the less true.... There!
Life was so quiet over the sea, things were so old and mellow there. He resumed, too, his horseback rides, and on the way home he would stop in for a visit with Edith and her baby. The wee boy grew funnier every day, with his sudden kicks and sneezes, his waving fists and mighty yawns.
Perhaps its brightest moment was when the office of censor was held by that filthy writer, Colman the younger; and when he gravely refused to license a work by the author of Our Village. Few funnier notions can ever have actually been facts than this notion that the restraint and chastity of George Colman saved the English public from the eroticism and obscenity of Miss Mitford.
With its band of red satin ribbon and tiny bunch of field flowers, it seemed to defy the world to find anything funnier. "It's a real comedy hat," Dr. Hume observed. "The kind they wear when they sing: "'Hi-lee-hi-lo-hi-lee-hi-lo, I joost come over; I joost come over." "But she's really a ministering angel, you know," said Billie, "sent to do the washing and ironing and scullery work.
And instead of doing to me as I was going to do to you, instead of killing me or making your getaway while I was helpless Keith old pal YOU'VE TRIED TO NURSE ME BACK TO LIFE! Isn't that funny? Could anything be funnier?" He reached a hand across the table and gripped Keith's. And then, for a few moments, he bowed his head while his body was convulsed by another racking cough.
He hunted up the painters' addresses, and the rest of the evening I spent in hunting up the painters themselves; but their work had been done on commission; one copy had gone out of the country, and I'm still on the track of the other." "Then you haven't seen Craggs yet?" "Seen him and made friends with him, and if possible he's the funnier old cuss of the two; but you should study 'em both.
We behold, with throbbing bosoms, the heroine in the grasp of a proud and ruthless baron: her virtue and her life alike in danger, drawing forth her dagger to preserve the one at the cost of the other; and just as our expectations are wrought up to the highest pitch, a whistle is heard, and we are straightway transported to the great hall of the castle; where a grey-headed seneschal sings a funny chorus with a funnier body of vassals, who are free of all sorts of places, from church vaults to palaces, and roam about in company, carolling perpetually.
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