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We should see parents panting to "marry off" their dear daughters to the richest youths, and the richest youths affecting a "jolly" and "stunning" life, reputed to know the world because they are licentious, and to have seen life because they have tasted foreign dissipation. We should hear insipidity praised as good-humor, and nonchalance as ease.
"Well, well, my boy," said Lord Crabs, who seemed to have been half asleep during his son's oratium, and received all his sneers and surcasms with the most complete good-humor; "well, well, if you will resist, tant pis pour toi. I've no desire to ruin you, recollect, and am not in the slightest degree angry but I must and will have a thousand pounds.
He was established in a very small room, whose only furnishings consisted of a table at which he was writing a couple of rough chairs, and the universal feather-bed, this time made on the floor in one corner of the room. On my remarking upon the limited character of his quarters, the Count replied, with great good-humor, that they were all right, and that he should get along well enough.
Meanwhile Cass, by reason of his forced entry, had been deposited in Miss Porter's lap, whence, freeing himself, he had attempted to climb over the middle seat, but in the starting of the coach was again thrown heavily against her hat and shoulder; all of which was inconsistent with the attitude of dignified reserve he had intended to display. Miss Porter, meanwhile, recovered her good-humor.
One old gray-beard, after examining the bicycle, eyes me meditatively for a moment, and then comes forward with a humorous twinkle in his eye, and pokes me playfully in the ribs, and makes a peculiar noise with the mouth: " q-u-e-e-k," in an effort to tickle me into good-humor and compliance with their wishes; in addition to which, the artful old dodger, thinking thus to work on my vanity, calls me "Pasha Effendi."
Ashe, in a straw hat and light suit, made his usual impression of strength and good-humor. He was gay, friendly, amusing as ever. But Darrell was not long in discovering or imagining signs of change. Any one else would have thought Ashe's talk frankness nay, indiscretion itself.
Jane listened at first with her usual quiet good-humor. But she began to grow anxious. "You really think Betty is not contented here?" her hand a little unsteady as she poured the cream into the cups. "Contented? She seems miserable enough. Home is home, you know, if it is only a cellar and starvation. But perhaps" with a shrug "that class of Irish are never happy without a grievance.
Why it was, whether Herbert suspected we had had a lovers' quarrel, or whether his vanity was flattered at my attention to him, which was entirely unusual, or whether my own excited, nervous condition led me to express the most joyous life and good-humor, and shut down all my angry sorrow and indignant suspicions, while I smiled and danced over their sepulchre, however it was, I know not, but a new sparkle came into the blue eyes of the young militaire.
When he returned from the drawing-room, she was still sitting near the door, and at his appearance she looked up pertly. "Did you find him in a good-humor?" she asked. "I think Mr. Grayson is always in a good-humor, or at least he is able to appear so." "I doubt whether perpetual good-humor, or the appearance of it, is desirable.
"Many a man gains doubloons, when he only looked for dollars; and many a market falls, while the goods are in the course of clearance. There are Frenchmen enough, Captain Ludlow to keep a brave officer in good-humor; and the less reason to fret about a trifling mischance in overhauling a smuggler." "I know not how highly you may prize your niece, Mr.
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