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He had travelled extensively in different countries, and acquired in consequence an excellent knowledge of their manners and customs. His observations on the character of different nations were very liberal; marking their various traits, their virtues and vices, with playful humorousness, quite free from bigotry, or narrow prejudice.
The youngsters, not immediately within sight, seemed rather bright and desirable appurtenances than otherwise; the incidents of daily life were not without humorousness and jollity in their aspect there.
In a world so commonplace as this, the peculiar man even should be considered a blessing. Humorousness, eccentricity, the habit of looking at men and things from an odd angle, are valuable, because they break the dead level of society and take away its sameness.
He was always of an ingratiating humorousness and endeared himself by an apparent readiness to enter into any joke that was going, especially that of startling the pedestrian by his own sudden apparition from behind a tuft of grass or withered stalk.
And when he says something funny it is in such a delightful and confidential way, with such a genial, quiet, infectious humorousness, that his audience is captivated. And they never think that he is telling something funny of his own; it seems, such is the skill of the man, that he is just letting them know of something humorous that they are to enjoy with him.
What he proposes is to scuttle her. Sell to him! I'd as soon sell Vassar College to Brigham Young!" This tragic humorousness had the double effect of showing us the dilemma, and taking the edge off the horror of it. "If it were my case," said Harper, "I'd call him.
Lord Channelcliffe became absorbed into some adjoining dignitary of the Church, and Pierston was left to pursue his quest alone. A young friend of his the Lady Mabella Buttermead, who appeared in a cloud of muslin and was going on to a ball had been brought against him by the tide. A warm-hearted, emotional girl was Lady Mabella, who laughed at the humorousness of being alive.
"But," he said, wagging his head with a grave humorousness, "your lordship needs not to ride a-courting. You are to be married to a great dame who will bring you wealth, alliance, and the dower of provinces." The young man shrugged his shoulders, and swung lightly off his charger, which turned to look at him as he stood and patted its neck.
In his reflections his glance had lingered again upon the pocket-book which Neigh still held in his hand, and upon the two or three rose-leaves on the floor, until he said idly, superimposing humorousness upon misery, as men in love can: 'Rose-leaves, Neigh? I thought you did not care for flowers.
"I have only one at the moment, which is, 'Why haven't we talked before?" and she glanced with a quiet humorousness at the few unpromising samples of the second cabin who obstructed the windward deck. "Oh, good for you!" he applauded, "aren't they loathly!" "Oh, no, all right, only not stimulating " "And we are," he finished for her, "so that, obviously, your question has only one answer.
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