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His natural indolence and lack of active ambition helped the healing of his wounds, perhaps; and then he began to appreciate the humourous side of his position and his old tendency to ponderous joking came back, and assisted him to win a greater popularity than any mere practical quality could have done. The novelty of his rôle was its chief attraction.

But then Epsom down is too unwieldy; the crowd is too great, and it does not cohere, save for the few seconds when gay jackets are streaming towards the winning-post. The Prologue to the "Canterbury Tales," in which we make the acquaintance of the pilgrims, is the ripest, most genial and humourous, altogether the most masterly thing which Chaucer has left us.

Never saw a soul. Seen plenty since." "Got any people belonging to you?" "Got a kind of a husband." "A kind of a husband?" "Yes the kind you'd give away with a pound o' tea." The little face, full of humourous contempt and shrewd scorn, sobered; she flung a black look round the saloon, and her eyes came back to the Colonel's face.

Hepworth's funny impromptu jokes and humourous actions in the character of Niobe that made the hit of the evening. Indeed, he and Kenneth Harper quite carried off the laurels from the other amateurs; but so delighted were the Vernondale young people at the success of the whole play that they were more than willing to give the praise where it belonged.

He's got a hundred thousand dollars in sight, only waitin' for runnin' water to wash it out." "Then there is gold about here?" "There is gold? Say, Maudie," he remarked in a humourous half-aside to the young woman who was passing with No thumb-Jack, "this fellow wants to know if there is gold here." She laughed. "Guess he ain't been here long."

Ries also records a humourous scandal of an occasion when he found Beethoven flirting desperately with a fair unknown; Ries sat down at the piano and improvised incidental music to Beethoven's directions "amoroso," "a malinconico" and the like. Once a devoted admirer, wife of a Vienna pianist, longed for a lock of the composer's outrageously unkempt hair, and asked a friend to get her one.

"We have nothing in common. I think they consider me a fool." "Why?" He looked up, keenly humourous. "Because I don't understand their inquiries. Besides, I don't gamble " "What kind of inquiries do they make?" "Personal ones," she said quietly. He laughed. "They're probably more offensively impertinent than the Chinese that sort of Briton.

But what attracted me most was the mouth a mouth at once delicate and humourous, a little large and with the lips full enough to betoken vigour, yet not too full for fineness. He was about sixty years of age, I guessed; and there was about him the air of a man who had passed through a hundred remarkable experiences, without once losing his aplomb. Certainly he was not going to lose it now.

Nice sort of brother that, eh? What?" Wrayson repressed an inclination to smile. There was something grimly humourous about his visitor's indignation. "You must remember," he said, "that your brother is dead, and that his death itself was a terrible one. Besides, even if you have had to wait for a little time, you are his heir now." The young man was breathing hard.

But I did not always indulge myself in this excessive ardour of expression, or speak every thing in the same manner: for even that youthful redundance which was so visible in the defence of Roscius, had many passages which were plain and simple, and some which were, tolerably humourous.

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