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Updated: May 5, 2025
But when we know this monkish king we wonder no longer. He chose Madrid simply because it was cheerless and bare and of ophthalmic ugliness. The royal kill-joy delighted in having the dreariest capital on earth. After a while there seemed to him too much life and humanity about Madrid, and he built the Escorial, the grandest ideal of majesty and ennui that the world has ever seen.
These times there are many ready to weep with delight when you offer to give them a smile; but in Mr. English's time and Alice's there were plenty of saloons handy. I remarked, what an awful kill-joy Alice must have been, weeping in a disconcerting manner when somebody smiled in her direction and trembling violently should anybody so much as merely knit his brow!
"Poetry's the truth of life," he hastened to add carefully, "and it's not poetry to say that you could be a kill-joy." The little lady tossed her head. "Well, you'll never have a chance to prove it, for I'm taking the express east on the night of your wedding. That's settled.
A high wall inclosed it, and on the top of this wall ran a miniature cheval-de-frise of iron. Nighttime or daytime, in mean or brilliant light, it took on the somber visage of a kill-joy. The invisible hand of fear chilled and repelled the curious: it was a house of dread.
Presently, in his shirt-sleeves, with a pipe between his lips, Cerizet made one of those masterly strokes which bring down the house with frantic applause. As he waited a moment, looking about him triumphantly, his eye lighted on a terrible kill-joy. Standing among the spectators with his chin on his cane, du Portail was steadily watching him. A tinge of red showed itself in Cerizet's cheeks.
"Now," said she, as she stepped over to the piano, "is there anyone who doesn't know how to play this game?" No fear of kill-joy amateurs with "Musical chairs." The children had become experts at the pastime through other parties innumerable. She seated herself at the instrument and ran her fingers over the keys. Slowly the procession started.
"Kill-joy. How about the one-arm bandits?" He pointed to several rows of slot machines. "No help there, either. It depends on how they're set, but usually out of every four coins you put in, one drops out of play completely. The only one who ever sees it again is the man who owns the machine. So, if you keep feeding money in, eventually the machine will take it all.
And yet, after receiving so much kindness from your family, more than has blessed me for many long years for since my dear mother died I have been quite alone in the world I feel I cannot go away without some assurance or proof that you will forgive me for being such a kill-joy in your holiday." Elsie's vexation with herself now knew no bounds.
'What is the matter, Frances? said Jacinth. 'You are such a kill-joy. What are you looking so reproachful about? 'I didn't mean I'm not looking reproachful, said Frances; 'it was only oh, just something of my own I was thinking of. 'Well then, I wish you would think of something cheerful, and not screw your face up as if you were going to cry.
Don't you think," with extreme innocence, "that it would be cheering for the poor fellow if you invited him to sit in your dufter this evening? He would not be in spirits to join the party, of course, but the music might soothe him, and his friends could go in and talk to him from time to time." "He will be a sad kill-joy, my dear.
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